Landscape Architecture and Design in Urban and Peri-Urban Environment
A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X). This special issue belongs to the section "Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2024) | Viewed by 37835
Special Issue Editor
Interests: visual resource management; landscape assessment; cultural ecosystem services; wetland assessment
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Landscape architecture and design research is becoming increasingly popular due to rapid urbanization and its impacts on the urban and peri-urban environment. Constant mitigation and sprawl of urban areas is an imperative and key point to know which natural and man-made landscape innovations or patterns are most suitable and sustainable for urban architecture and design. Such knowledge is crucial to achieving sustainable urbanization while maintaining and improving urban and peri-urban areas as well as providing a healthy environment for urban residents.
Thus, innovative research that is supported by computational approaches, field studies and spatial analysis to expand the knowledge on sustainable urbanization is in high demand. In this Special issue, we invite researchers to share their state-of-the-art work on landscape architecture and design combined with sustainable solutions, and other research fields such as urban blocks, urban green-blue infrastructure, public places, and architectural and design amenities related to urban and peri-urban environmental engineering to better cope with the urbanization phenomenon.
The goal of this Special Issue is to collect papers (original research articles and review papers) to give insights about Landscape Architecture and Design in Urban and Peri-Urban Environments.
This Special Issue will welcome manuscripts that link the following themes:
- Peri-urban landscape restoration;
- Sustainable architecture, design and, management of open and public spaces;
- Design and management of green spaces;
- Sustainable urban design;
- Planning and maintenance of peri-urban areas;
- Expansion of urban areas and their impact in an urban–rural context;
- Enhancement of environment and human health benefits.
We look forward to receiving your original research articles and reviews.
Prof. Dr. Richard Smardon
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- landscape architecture
- urban design
- urban expansion
- land use
- land use change
- urban context
- built-up area
- adaptive governance
- urban regeneration
- ecosystem services: environmental health benefits
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