Springer Planning and Designing Sustainable and Resilient Landscapes (Springer Geography)

This book covers landscape architecture from the points of view of architecture, geography, history and communication science. It provides approaches to intervention, through rehabilitation and upgrade, as well as participative methods. From the Back Cover This book deals with planning issues in landscape architecture, which start at the evaluation of the existing fabric of society, its history and memory, approached and conserved through photography, film and scenographic installations, a way in which the archetypes can be investigated, be it industrial derelict sites or already green spaces and cultural landscapes. It provides approaches to intervention, through rehabilitation and upgrade, eventually in participative manner. To such evaluation and promotion a couple of disciplines can contribute, such as history of art, geography and communication science, and of course (landscape) architecture. The field of landscape architecture reunites points of view from such different disciplines with a view to an active approach, a contemporary intervention or conservation. The book presents case studies from several European countries (Romania, Germany, Austria, Italy, Portugal), mostly for large landscape in the outskirts of the cities and in the parks. About the Author Cerasella Crăciun is PhD, Associate Professor Architect, Vice-Dean of the Urban Planning Faculty, Head of the study direction "Landscape architecture" at the "Ion Mincu" University of Architecture and Urbanism (both masters and undergraduate). Maria Bostenaru-Dan is PhD, research scientist at the “Ion Mincu” University of Architecture and Urbanism. She came back to her home country of Romania after spending more than a decade abroad, in Karlsruhe, Germany, where she graduated and in Pavia, Italy.