A Landscape-Based Regional Design Approach for Sustainable Urban Development in the Pearl River Delta, China

Adaptive urban transformations employ landscape-based regional design as an integrative and multiscale design and planning approach for sustainable urban development. In this approach, natural and urban dynamics as derived from systems analysis set the pace and nature of adaptation. This chapter presents an initial strategy for adaptive urban...

Design Studios as Method for Exploring Complex Challenges in the Pearl River Delta

This chapter draws on three different design studios that focus on the Pearl River Delta to discuss what kind of knowledge has been generated within them, and how they can be used systematically as a method to address the region’s complex challenges. The three studios differ in their objectives, duration and structure, but are linked by a...

Historical Canals as Urban Landscape Infrastructure in Guangzhou: Reactivating Public Life Through Water

In the heart of the Pearl River Delta, the city of Guangzhou is fast-growing and prone to flooding. In history, people constructed canals based on natural waterways to deal with water problems. The canal system not only served as an important infrastructure but was also as the backbone of urban life. But with the development of the road network...

Introduction: Adaptive Urban Transformation in the Pearl River Delta, China.

Deltaic areas are amidst the most favourable territories around the globe. Their strategic location and superior quality of their soils are core factors supporting both human development and the rise of these regions as global economic hubs. At the same time, deltas are extremely vulnerable to multiple threats from both climate change and the...

Landscape as basis

Sustainable urbanisation, climate adaptation and biodiversity require a design approach that takes the landscape as its starting point. The existing landscape logic provides starting points for planning and designing a socially and ecologically inclusive spatial environment across scales, from city to street profile. The landscape offers...

Landscape-Based Urbanism: Cultivating Urban Landscapes Through Design

Sustainable urbanisation requires planning and design strategies and principles that take the (natural) landscape as the basis for working with natural processes for the benefit of socially and ecologically inclusive and thriving urban landscapes. Such an approach takes the landscape first and considers the biosphere the context for social and...

Ontwerpend onderzoek

In hoofdstuk 2 is onderscheid gemaakt in drie soorten relaties tussen ontwerp en onderzoek: onderzoek voor, door en naar of over ontwerp en zijn voorbeelden daarvan gegeven. In hoofdstuk 4 wordt nader ingegaan op onderzoek voor of ten behoeve van ontwerp. In dit hoofdstuk wordt nader ingegaan op onderzoek door ontwerpen c.q. ontwerpend onderzoek...

Introduction: Connecting Water and Heritage for the Future

Water has served and sustained societies throughout the history of humankind. People have actively shaped its course, form, and function for human settlement and the development of civilizations. Around water, they have created socioeconomic structures, policies, and cultures; a rich world of narratives, laws, and practices; and an extensive...

The Noordoostpolder: A Landscape Planning Perspective on the Preservation and Development of Twentieth-Century Polder Landscapes in the Netherlands

The Netherlands has a centuries-long tradition of reclaiming land. In the last century gaining land from water peaked with the IJsselmeerpolders, made possible by technical innovations. The Noordoostpolder (1937–1942), one of the IJsselmeerpolders, is a unique example of a fully designed agricultural landscape of the twentieth century. It is the...

Mapping the Evolution of Designed Landscapes with GIS: Stourhead Landscape Garden as an Example

Landscapes change because they are the expression of the dynamic interaction between natural and cultural forces in the environment. As such the landscape is a palimpsest that evidences many successive transformations by human interventions, changing land-use and management, natural succession of vegetation, but also caused by climatological and...

Exploring Spatial Relationships in the Pearl River Delta

Urban deltas belong to the most promising regions considering their population concentrations, ecosystems service and economy significance. Meanwhile these regions are facing multiple threats and are extreme vulnerable for increasing flood risk, damage of social and ecological values and substantial economic losses. These challenges are...

Ontwerpen als onderzoeksstrategie bij TU Delft landschapsarchitectuur

TU Delft Landschapsarchitectuur richt zich voornamelijk op ruimtelijke ontwerpopgaven in de stedelijk landschap. Het stedelijk landschap wordt daarbij begrepen als een schaalcontinuüm, 4D-constructie, palimpsest en systeem, waarbij sociale en ecologische structuren en processen de hoofdrol spelen en de Genius Loci centraal staat. [1]...

Principles of landscape architecture

The Department of Urbanism at the Faculty of Architecture and Built Environment, TU Delft considers urbanism as a planning and design oriented activity towards urban and rural landscapes. It aims to enhance, restore or create landscapes from a perspective of sustainable development, so as to guide, harmonise and shape changes which are brought...

New Tools: Digital media in landscape architecture

Landscape architects use analogue and digital media to understand and design urban areas and the countryside. Because new media in particular enable us to use different approaches to thinking and communicating about spatial design issues, they are contributing to the development of the field. This book chapter explains where digital media belong...

Nieuw gereedschap: Digitale media in de landschapsarchitectuur

Ontwerpers en onderzoekers gebruiken analoge en digitale media om stad en land te begrijpen en vorm te geven. Omdat met name nieuwe media het mogelijk maken om het denken en communiceren over ruimtelijke ontwerpvraagstukken anders aan te pakken, dragen ze bij aan de ontwikkeling van het vakgebied. Steffen Nijhuis plaatst digitale media in een...

Planning and Visibility Assessment of High Building Development in The Hague

A true skyline in the Dutch city of The Hague emerged in the spring of 2011 when the construction of four high buildings drew simultaneously to a close: the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations (146 metres, 2012), the Ministry of Justice (146 metres, 2012), a residential project De Kroon (132 metres, 2011) and a new office tower New...