The proposed book maintains the strengths of interdisciplinary and international perspectives. It improves upon relating titles from planning and design fields, as its chapters build upon evidence based studies of education history. Unlike other books and papers published to date, the proposed book gives insights into the roles that educators, education approaches and methods, schools and curricula have and will have for generations of landscape practitioners, researchers and scholars.

Defining a research question, describing why it needs to be answered and explaining how methods are selected and applied are challenging tasks for anyone embarking on academic research within the field of landscape architecture. Whether you are an early career researcher or a senior academic, it is essential to draw meaningful conclusions and robust answers to research questions. Research in Landscape Architecture provides guidance on the rationales needed for selecting methods and offers direction to help to frame and design academic research within the discipline. Over the last couple of decades the traditional orientation in landscape architecture as a field of professional practice has gradually been complemented by a growing focus on research. This book will help you to develop the connections between research, teaching and practice, to help you to build a common framework of theory and research methods. Bringing together contributions from landscape architects across the world, this book covers a broad range of research methodologies and examples to help you conduct research successfully. Also included is a study in which the editors discuss the most important priorities for the research within the discipline over the coming years. This book will provide a definitive path to developing research within landscape architecture.

Defining a research question, describing why it needs to be answered and explaining how methods are selected and applied are challenging tasks for anyone embarking on academic research within the field of landscape architecture. Whether you are an early career researcher or a senior academic, it is essential to draw meaningful conclusions and robust answers to research questions. Research in Landscape Architecture provides guidance on the rationales needed for selecting methods and offers direction to help to frame and design academic research within the discipline. Over the last couple of decades the traditional orientation in landscape architecture as a field of professional practice has gradually been complemented by a growing focus on research. This book will help you to develop the connections between research, teaching and practice, to help you to build a common framework of theory and research methods. Bringing together contributions from landscape architects across the world, this book covers a broad range of research methodologies and examples to help you conduct research successfully. Also included is a study in which the editors discuss the most important priorities for the research within the discipline over the coming years. This book will provide a definitive path to developing research within landscape architecture.

In this book an international group of authors reflects mechanisms of the cultural and social construction of landscapes. International migration and global exchange are associated with a multitude of different cultural meanings of landscapes. The logics of multi-cultural perceptions and meanings of landscape call for trans-disciplinary research, and for guidance on addressing culturally sensitive issues and inclusion in practical planning.

Die von 40 Staaten (nicht aber von Deutschland) unterzeichnete und 2004 in Kraft getretene Europaische Landschaftskonvention (ELK) stellt ein zentrales Dokument der Befassung mit Landschaft dar: Sie basiert in grossen Teilen auf einer konstruktivistischen Vorstellung von Landschaft und raumt dem Menschen eine besondere Bedeutung fur die Erhaltung und Entwicklung von Landschaft eine zentrale Bedeutung ein. In dem Buch befassen sich namhafte Autoren mit den Fragen der rechtlichen, sozialen, politischen und planerischen Bedeutung der ELK. Neben Fallbeispielen zur Umsetzung der Konvention in verschiedenen europaischen Landern wird auch der Frage nachgegangen, warum Deutschland mit der Unterzeichnung der ELK zogert und wie in Deutschland sich eine Umsetzung gestalten konnte.

Um den aktuellen Stand des Wissens und der Anwendung von Methoden visueller Kommunikation aus unterschiedlichen Blickwinkeln zu beleuchten, steuern Autoren aus Wissenschaft und Praxis Beitrage zu diesem Sammelband bei. Sie arbeiten dabei aktuelle Herausforderungen in Bezug auf die visuelle Kommunikation und dazu einschlagige Methoden heraus, um entsprechende Zukunftsperspektiven der raumlichen Planung und insbesondere der Landschaftsplanung bzw. Landschaftsarchitektur aufzuzeigen. Ein solcher UEberblick uber die visuellen Methoden in der raumlichen Planung ist bisher einzigartig. Neben den eher traditionellen Methoden wie z.B. Modellen und Zeichnungen liegt ein Schwerpunkt in der Betrachtung des Umbruchs der Medienlandschaft, der auch der raumlichen Planung voellig neue Moeglichkeiten der Kommunikation eroeffnet. So wird die visuelle Kommunikation der Disziplin auch verstarkt Gegenstand einer eigenstandigen Forschung, die sich vielfach auf Methoden angrenzender Disziplinen stutzt und damit interdisziplinar agiert.