Urban Futures—Landscape
A special issue of Urban Science (ISSN 2413-8851).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 September 2018) | Viewed by 17525
Special Issue Editors
Interests: design methods in landscape architecture; perception of space and time in landscape; architecture and cinema; history of landscape architecture
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This conference calls on landscape architects, art and architectural historians and theorists, architects, urban planners and designers, to analyse the concept of landscape of the past, critique the present, and inform the future.
Cities are constantly growing, overloaded by images and inputs, and the areas between urban and rural environments are left to change without clear visions, the relationships between human beings and nature are always more hidden and complicated, natural areas are disappearing or have been transformed in protected untouchable open-air museums, even sustainability itself seems at times to already be an old fashion trend, while the rhythm of our life is increasing constantly.
In this context, what is the new meaning of landscape and how are human beings creating new relationships with nature? As the poet Antonio Machado noted, “there are no paths, paths are made by walking” and this conference will try to answer these questions defining the landscape as social, economic, political, artistic, design, historic, and theoretical products of its own era and identifying its transformations, from the past to the future.
Trying to focus on the concept of landscape broadly, the conference will produce interdisciplinary and innovative discussions related to the topic. Within this framework, the conference welcomes international and national researchers, from academic and professional environments, who are related to the concept of landscape and want to help in figuring out its future.
Dr. Molinari Carla
Dr. David Buck
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- landscape design
- sustainability
- ecology
- urban phenomena
- rural areas
- human beings and nature
- experience and perception
- space and time
- landscape architecture projects
- social practices
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