Understanding Metropolitan Landscapes
Auteur : MacKenzie Andrew
Understanding Metropolitan Landscapes considers and reflects on the fundamental relationships between metropolitan regions and their landscapes. It investigates how planning and policy help to protect, manage and enhance the landscapes that sustain our urban settlements. As global populations become more metropolitan, landscapes evolve to become increasingly dynamic and entropic; and the distinction between urban and non-urban is further fragmented and yet these spaces play an increasingly important role in sustainable development.
This book opens a key critical discussion into the relational aspects of city and landscape and how each element shapes the boundaries of the other, covering topics such as material natures, governance systems, processes and policy. It presents a compendium of concepts and ideas that have emerged from landscape architecture, planning, and environmental policy and landscape management.
Using a range of illustrated case studies, it provokes discussions on the major themes driving the growth of cities by exploring the underlying tensions around notions of sustainable settlement, climate change adaption, urban migration, new modes of governance and the role of landscape in policy and decision making at national, provincial and municipal levels.
Foreword Part 1: Metropolitan trajectories 1. Understanding metropolitan landscapes 2. Co-evolution of the landscape and the metropolis 3. Landscapes and the contemporary metropolis 4. Sustainability Part 2: Metropolitan strategies 5. Conceptualising and valuing metropolitan landscapes 6. The role of Governance 7. Regulating metropolitan landscapes Part 3:Metropolitan imaginaries 8.Landscapes and health 9. Landscapes and decarbonising the metropolis 10. New concepts of a sustainable metropolis Index
Andrew MacKenzie is a registered landscape architect and honorary senior lecturer at the Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University, Australia (ANU). Andrew has a Master of Public Policy (specialising in Environmental Law) and a Doctor of Philosophy from ANU. He is the co-chair of the National Advocacy Committee for the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects.
Date de parution : 10-2019
15.6x23.4 cm
Date de parution : 10-2019
15.6x23.4 cm
Thème d’Understanding Metropolitan Landscapes :
Mots-clés :
Green Walls; Metropolitan landscapes; Metropolitan Landscape; Resilience; Green Infrastructure; Energy; WCED Definition; Environmental policy; Metropolitan Plan; Environmental economics; Central Park Conservancy; Landscape governance; Adaptive Governance Framework; Landscape planning; Extreme Heat Event; Well-being; European Landscape Convention Definition; Design for health; Landscape Lens; Regulation; Civil Society; Globalisation; UHI; urban migration; Urban Greening; landscape management; UHI Effect; Adaptive Governance; governance system; Ecosystem Services; metropolitan regions; Climate Change Adaption; ELC; Metropolitan Imaginaries; Carbon Neutral Economy; UN; Public Infrastructure; Adaptive Cycles; Sustainable Urban Development; Metropolitan Scale