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Revising Green Infrastructure - Concepts Between Nature and Design (Paperback)
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Revising Green Infrastructure - Concepts Between Nature and Design (Paperback)
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Consider this ... How do we handle the convergence of landscape
architecture, ecological planning, and civil engineering? What are
convenient terms and metaphors to communicate the interplay between
design and ecology? What are suitable scientific theories and
technological means? What innovations arise from multidisciplinary
and cross-scalar approaches? What are appropriate aesthetic
statements and spatial concepts? What instruments and tools should
be applied? Revising Green Infrastructure: Concepts Between Nature
and Design examines these questions and presents innovative
approaches in designing green, landscape or nature as
infrastructure from different perspectives and attitudes instead of
adding another definition or category of green infrastructure. The
editors bring together the work of selected ecologists, engineers,
and landscape architects who discuss a variety of theoretical
aspects, research projects, teaching methods, and best practice
examples in green infrastructure. The approaches range from
retrofitting existing infrastructures through landscape-based
integrations of new infrastructures and envisioning prospective
landscapes as hybrids, machines, or cultural extensions. The book
explores a scientific functional approach in landscape
architecture. It begins with an overview of green functionalism and
includes examples of how new design logics are deducted from
ecology in order to meet economic and environmental requirements
and open new aesthetic relationships toward nature. The
contributors share a decidedly cultural perspective on nature as
landscape. Their ecological view emphasizes the individual nature
of specific local situations. Building on this foundation, the
subsequent chapters present political ideas and programs defining
social relations toward nature and their integration in different
planning systems as well as their impact on nature and society.
They explore different ways of participation and cooperation within
cities, regions, and nations. They then describe projects
implemented in local contexts to solve concrete problems or
remediate malfunctions. These projects illustrate the full scope
presented and discussed throughout the book: the use of scientific
knowledge, strategic thinking, communication with municipal
authorities and local stakeholders, design implementation on site,
and documentation and control of feedback and outcome with adequate
indicators and metrics. Although diverse and sometimes
controversial, the discussion of how nature is regarded in contrast
to society, how human-natural systems could be organized, and how
nature could be changed, optimized, or designed raises the question
of whether there is a new paradigm for the design of social
relations to nature. The multidisciplinary review in this book
brings together discussions previously held only within the
respective disciplines, and demonstrates how they can be used to
develop new methods and remediation strategies.
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