Landscape Futures for an Urbanized Society—Challenges, Opportunities, and Requirements for the New Anthropogenic Age
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Urban and Rural Development".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2022) | Viewed by 6284
Special Issue Editors
Interests: user-based approaches and qualitative methods in investigating environmental and green space interaction, the role of physical engagement and activity in fostering well-being and a sense of worth; the importance of the narrative and the use of language within a user-based approach, narratives as a performative act to stimulate and engender memory and positive states of well-being, memory loops and positive feedback; the co-design of community and associated research agendas, how individuals and communities interact with the urban and natural environment, how to design and manage environments that support individuals and contribute to their unique identities underpinning the achievement of high levels of wellbeing; applying specialist expertise to deliver processes of knowledge exchange by applying methodologies which give power and voice to the individual and their communities, community and urban forestry, urban agriculture, socio-ecology, associated aspects of sustainability
Interests: exploring current issues and challenges faced by landscapes and the built environment, to create resilient environments, healthy urban landscapes and long-term visions for areas identified for future housing and employment, together with strategies relating to important matters such as climate change, food urbanism and public health and wellbeing; user-based perceptions, experiences and interactions with the environment; exploring the choreographies of landscape experience through which individuals negotiate wellbeing; in-depth nature of person–place interactions and the role of places in the production of loops of “positive states of being”, “enhanced spatial awareness” and specific identities of self
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
As we more fully understand how urban centres function, so we more clearly recognise the paradigm surrounding landscape futures, human wellbeing, the needs of society and factors that engender or foster positive lifestyles. However, recent COVID-19 lockdown measures implemented over much of the developed world have brought into question how access to landscape experiences should or might be offered, while current approaches might also be questioned in the face of direct citizen actions, newly emerged thinking, urban land use priorities, co-creation approaches and professional responsibilities.
This raises questions regarding circumstances surrounding the development of the urban landscape as an essential and fully integrated resource that supports human endeavour and human needs, but are such aspects of landscape interaction properly recognised or given the right priority in current urban strategies? Indeed, do coherent landscape strategies truly exist, and if they do, what should they encompass?
This Special Issue examines these issues specifically looking at Urban Landscape Futures aiming to provide a critical and definitive exploration of the paradigm surrounding landscape and human interaction within the urban scene, to explore needs and challenges, whether current approaches are fit for purpose or sufficiently resilient to meet future needs or different urban scenarios.
Prof. Dr. Richard Coles
Dr. Sandra Costa
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- urban landscape
- landscape futures, health and well-being
- built environment
- landscape perception
- user experience
- landscape interaction
- landscape design
- urban spaces
- resilient cities
- sustainable development
- urban design
