The River and the Mosaic: Regenerative Cycles in Production Landscapes

The Paraná River is the second longest in South America and has always been a corridor for the migration of flora and fauna across the continent. In recent decades, it became one of the most important economic axes of the continent, crossing some of its most populous areas. However, in 2019, a severe drought event in the Upper Paraná River basin...

Regeneration of Ecological Integrity in the Tietê River Basin

The Tietê River Basin, in the State of São Paulo, Brazil, has been shaped throughout centuries into a highly-industrialized agriculture landscape. Originally almost entirely covered by the Atlantic Rainforest, a rich tropical biome that stretches through most of the Brazilian eastern coast, the basin is now mostly covered by urbanized landscapes...

In-Between Nature: Reconsidering Design Practices for Territories In-Between from a Social-Ecological Perspective

During past decades, Territories in-Between (TiB) have gained increased attention among researchers in the field of urban planning and design. TiB are often considered to be underused, lack spatial quality and are under mounting pressure of urban densification. However, the rich diversity of land uses and abundance of semi-open spaces in the TiB...

Regenerative Territories: Dimensions of Circularity for Healthy Metabolisms

This open access book provides new perspectives on circular economy and space, explored towards the definition of regenerative territories characterised by healthy metabolisms. Going beyond the mere reuse/recycle of material waste as resources, this work aims to understand how to apply circularity principles to, among others, the regeneration of...

Beyond Road: Rethink the potential of ecosystem services of the arterial network in Rotterdam

Modern urban road systems often bring environmental problems and affect the quality of life of residents. The main roads in the south of Rotterdam face problems with lack of greenery, heat island effect and flash flooding. These problems have had a negative impact on the well-being of residents, and have also caused the road ecosystem to fail to...

Symbiotic Urban Voids: A Resilient Ecological Framework for Rotterdam through its Urban Voids

The Rotterdam urban fabric is built in an area of amalgamation of very interesting landscape conditions surrounding it. Defined by the rich natural and cultural history, this structure has been home to different habitats for a variety of flora and fauna. However, the urban core disconnects these areas due to the lack of diverse ecological green...

Gardens of Gelderland: Design Research Explorations into Resilient Estate Landscapes

Report of the MSc Landscape Architecture 2019 - 2020, Graduation Lab Resilient Heritage Landscapes. In this graduation lab landscape architecture students from TU Delft explored the landscape assets of private and dispersed heritage properties and developed design strategies to engage them in future-proof landscape development. The focus of the...

Cultivated Ecologies: Operational Landscapes of Material Production as Flood-Related Risk Infrastructure

This thesis elaborates on a theoretical, epistemological and design research framework for the possibility of an operative synthesis of, on the one hand, climate-related risk management (primarily, flood exposure from multiple source, i.e. sea level rise and coastal/tidal flooding, fluvial flooding and pluvial flooding) and, on the other, the...

Remaking "Nature": An Ecological Transition Towards A Sustainable Landscape

Wetlands are the most important ecosystems on Earth, which can be found in many parts of the world. However, demand for food and economic development in the last century had driven many wetlands in the world being completely drained for cultivation and to the extent that no longer retain any natural wetland characteristics such as the Everglades...

Edge city, beyond edge city: Evolutionary urbanization by dynamics of landscape ecology

Historically, cities have been shaped by the transport system as it was considered as the most crucial element for economic growth. However, the advance of infomation technology broke the strong relationship between the city shape, the transport system and the economic growth. Since the flow of information is no longer dependant on the physical...

Re-Territorialization: A vision for Milan Urban region

Landscape Networks: Integrating Fragmented Urban Landscapes: A proposal for Socio-Territorial Integration

The mosaic ladscape and its spatial arrangements used as facilitators of relations and connectors in a fragmented landscape. Application of the patch, matrix and corridor approach to understand the potential that lies in spatial elements of the landscape in order to design and develop networks that interact with the different programmatic...