Landscape-based urbanism | Adaptive design urban deltas & resilient coastal landscapes | Designed heritage landscapes & gardens | Polder landscapes
LANDSCAPE-BASED URBANISM
Landscape-based urbanism is considered to be an important
regional design
strategy that shapes the physical form of regions using the landscape as the basic condition. It is a transdisciplinary effort to safeguard sustainable and coherent development, to guide and shape changes which are brought about by socio-economic and environmental processes, and to establish local identity through tangible relationships to a region. This research aims to introduce landscape-based regional design and explores some backgrounds and approaches. Read more...
ADAPTIVE DESIGN URBAN DELTAS & RESILIENT COASTAL LANDSCAPES
Deltaic and coastal areas are among the most promising regions in the world. At the same time, deltas face extreme vulnerability and multiple threats related to climate change and urbanization with increasing flood risk and loss of ecological and social-cultural values as a result. This research develops and explores spatial design strategies and principles that ensure water safety and inclusive socio-ecological design. Read more...
DESIGNED HERITAGE LANDSCAPES & GARDENS
Landscape heritage such as historical gardens and designed landscapes, but also estate landscapes, historical villages,
and cultural landscapes, face serious challenges such as abundance and shortage of water, spatial fragmentation, loss of biodiversity, urbanization, etc. This research focuses on the development of adaptive design strategies and principles to engage this heritage in future-proof landscape development. Read more...
