Conservation and development of the historic garden in a landscape context: A systematic literature review

Although there have been numerous studies on the heritage attributes, characteristics, and values of the historic garden as a special category of cultural heritage, the question is why a comprehensive review combining mainstream historic garden conservation with ways of understanding the garden in a landscape context has not been conducted....

ShoreScape: A landscape approach to the natural adaptation of urbanized sandy shores

Sandy shores around the world suffer from coastal erosion due to land subsidence, a lack of sediment input and sea level rise. This often leads to the construction of hard structures, such as sea walls and breakwaters, that consolidate the coastal zone but disrupt the dynamic system of coastal deltas. To compensate for coastal erosion in a more...

Resilient Estate Landscapes Gelderland: Past, Present, Future

The province of Gelderland, in the Netherlands, has many castles, country houses and estates. Together, they form historic estate landscapes that partially determine the regional landscape character. Climate change and urbanisation have a significant effect on the management and protection of these heritage landscapes. An abundance and a...

Cultural heritage adaptive reuse in Salerno: Challenges and solutions

The adaptive reuse of cultural heritage contributes to heritage conservation, leveraging on the heritage potential to enable sustainable development and enhance urban livability. Yet, it is seldom applied as intervention. This research furthers the knowledge on the challenges to the adaptive reuse of cultural heritage. Through the case study...

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...

Resilient Coastal Landscapes: Landscape architecture design explorations in the Pearl River Delta, Ningshao Plain, Mumbai and Bangkok through five MSc-graduation projects

The Resilient Coastal Landscapes graduation lab explores the potential of a landscape-based regional design approach to contribute to more resilient coastal landscapes around the globe. Such an approach addresses the interaction between the natural and urban landscape throughout the scales of space and time. It takes the landscape as the basis...

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...

Assessing cultural heritage adaptive reuse practices: Multi-scale challenges and solutions in rijeka

Cultural heritage is recognized as a driver and enabler for sustainable development, and its role within the circular economy and circular cities is gaining attention. Its adaptive reuse plays a significant role in this while prolonging the heritage lifespan, preserving the values associated with heritage assets, and creating shared values....

Adaptive Reuse of Cultural Heritage in Amsterdam: Identifying Challenges and Solutions through the Historic Urban Landscape Approach

The conservation of cultural heritage through its adaptive reuse contributes to the transition towards circular cities enhancing urban liveability and tackles challenges such as resource scarcity (UN SDG target 11.4) and waste prevention (UN SDG target 12.5). By regenerating heritage resources and maintaining their values over time, adaptive...

Operationalising the HUL Tools at Building Level: Circular Models of Adaptive Reuse

Adaptive reuse of historic buildings plays a significant role in the transition towards circular economy. The existing literature still regards heritage conservation, urban management, circular economy and sustainable development as different spheres of knowledge. The Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape (HUL) provides a holistic...

Exploring New Productive Landscapes: Landscape-based spatial and temporal planning and design of post-industrial areas along Foshan’s waterways

The Pearl River Delta (PRD) is a the watershed consisting Xi (west), Bei (north) and Dong (east) rivers located in the Guangdong Province in the South-West region of China. Much of the PRD area lies between 0-20m above sea level and the rivers from the mainland feed the delta with 340 billion cubic meters of rainwater yearly (Weng, 2007). Water...

Monitoring Climate Change in World Heritage Properties: Evaluating Landscape-Based Approach in the State of Conservation System

Climate change is increasingly being recognized as a threat to natural and cultural World Heritage (WH) sites worldwide. Through its interaction with other stressors, climate change accelerates existing risks while also creating new obstacles. A more considerable focus is needed in both research and practice to explore proactive measures for...

From Boundary to Border: Toward a resilient, dynamic and interactive urban edge of Northwest Miami

On the northwest urban edge of Miami Dade County, the mining industry of the largest scale in Florida has existed for over 60 years. However, it is estimated to stop by 2050 as the reserves decline. As a consequence of limestone mining, more than 10,000 hectares of abandoned lakes will be left on the landscape. This project proposes land and...

Dynamic Adaptive Development Pathways: A participatory planning approach to support sustainable development under uncertain future conditions

Rural communities in drylands of low-income countries represent highly vulnerable societies that are<br/>often strongly affected by the increased climate variability (UNDP, 2007/2008). Additionally to climatic<br/>uncertainty, local households have also to cope with strongly fluctuating political and economic<br/>conditions, which are difficult...

From emergency landscapes to ecologies of co-habitation: Agricultural production, the normality in a state of exception

The geopolitical instability in Syria has led to an increased disturbance of the environmental, economic and social situation in its adjacent country Lebanon. A comprehensive approach is put forward, for safeguarding the environment and to address the economic and social disruptions the country is facing. This allows the phenomenon and...

The Honduran Production Valleys: Finding Balance Between People and Environment

This thesis initiated from a project worked on in conjunction with the PBL, the Environmental Agency of the Netherlands. The project, with PBL, follows three case studies of landscapes to research the implementation of the landscape approach for reaching the new framework of sustainable development goals, developed at the 2015 climate change...

Shelter landscape: A landscape approach to the refugee camp in peri urban areas along the austrian hungarian border

Farming Guangming: Integrating agricultural landscape and new town development for the “Green City” Guangming in Shenzhen

Hundreds of new towns are being built or planned today in China, which mostly remove the existing agricultural landscape. The study is motivated by a very simple question: instead of being eaten up by new towns, can agricultural landscape perform more actively in the process of development? I pick Guangming, a new town being built in Shenzhen,...