"Routledge Handbook Of Urban Landscape Research | Landscape & Planning

Landscape architecture is one of the key professions dedicated to making cities hospitable and healthy places to live work and play while respecting and enhancing the natural environments and landscapes we inhabit. This edited collection presents current writing about the pivotal roles that landscape architects play in addressing some of the most pressing problems facing the planet its environments and its populations through their research analysis and speculative practice. The book has assembled current writings on recent research structured around five major themes: governance power and partnership; infrastructure systems and performance; environment resilience and climate change; people place and design; and culture heritage and identity. As a collection the chapters demonstrate the diversity of themes and topics that are expanding the scholarly body of knowledge for the discipline and its relevance to the practice of landscape architecture. The contributors to this book are academic researchers and practitioners from the discipline of landscape architecture. The chapters draw on their research teaching and experience as well as analysis of project examples. Fifty-two contributors from the United Stsates United Kingdom Sweden Denmark the Netherlands Nigeria Malaysia Spain Colombia Australia New Zealand and Canada discuss a diverse range of contemporary themes in urban landscape architecture. Collectively the contributors demonstrate the breadth of experience shared concerns and distinct issues that challenge urban landscape architecture and cities in the 21st century. |Routledge Handbook of Urban Landscape Research | Landscape & Planning