Exploring the ways in which an integrated landscape vision can help deliver regional, national, and international agendas, this book investigates how a new idea of landscape can reimagine governance, policy, economics, culture, identity, health, transport, and development priorities by connecting in a more powerful and meaningful way with local aspirations and demands. Developed in fieldwork undertaken over the last decade, the capacity of a landscape-led approach to deal with problems such as rapid urbanisation, water and food security, climate change, air pollution, and health is both timely and topical. Divided into three main sections, it includes illustrated case studies from the UK, Europe, East Asia, South Asia, and more. As part of a strategy to capture, build, and disseminate expertise in this approach, the book aims to develop an interdisciplinary body of work that will appeal to academics and professionals, by bringing together a number of contributors who are operating at the cutting edge of landscape-led large-scale transformation. This book is essential for practitioners and academics of landscape architecture, as well as students in the architecture and design fields.
Edited by:
Kathryn Moore,
Anastasia Nikologianni,
Alex Albans,
Paul Cureton (Lancaster University,
UK)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 254mm,
Width: 178mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780367458737
ISBN 10: 036745873X
Pages: 380
Publication Date: 27 June 2025
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Professional and scholarly
,
Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming
Foreword 1. Introduction Part 1: Integrated Visions 2. National Park Cities: our best idea for the future? 3. Creating a National Park for the West Midlands 4. A National Park for Young People? 5. A Vision for a City with Nature at its Heart 6. Landscape: A Fragmented Scene Focus Piece A: Students’ Work Focus Piece B: Inner-Urban Landscapes Part 2: Landscape Re-United 7. Cultural Landscape and Sustainable Development: Cultural Landscape Conservation Challenges in Bhutan 8. The Hidden Landscape Infrastructure 9. Emscher Landscape Park: Urban Landscape as a platform for integrated urban development and the implementation of green and blue infrastructures 10. Making a Low Carbon Regional Design 11. The SATURN Pan European project: cross-border and cross-practice approaches for urban/rural linkages towards climate adaptation 12. Designing Stations: Why the World Outside Matters 13. Developing Integrated Approaches as Tools for Better Place-Making Focus Piece C: The Future City is Nature-Based Focus Piece D: Bigger, better, more joined-up partnerships – the Tame Valley Wetlands Landscape Partnership Part 3: Re-Citing Landscape 14. Landscape as Battlefield of the New Economy 15. Mobilis in Mobile: A Guiding Principle for the Anthropocene 16. Atlas for a City-Region: Imagining the Post-Brexit Landscapes of the Irish Northwest 17. Landscape: A Relationship that Needs Reconciling? 18. How did we succeed in Matera? The Oasis model and new UNESCO landscape vision 19. The Mountain-water-field-city System: Chinese Territorial Landscape 20. A Framework to Enable New Ways of Landscape Scale Thinking and Practice 21. Blueprints for the Future: Regional Planning, Landscape and the Neo-Garden City Focus Piece E: Recognising the Value of a View: The economic value of social media in landscape architecture Focus Piece F: Growing Social Spaces: Farming and Food Growing as Part of the Urban Landscape
Kathryn Moore is Professor of Landscape Architecture at Birmingham City University, Director of the West Midlands National Park Lab, and past president of the International Federation of Landscape Architects and Landscape Institute. Anastasia Nikologianni is the Chair of the Emerging Professionals Advocate of IFLA World and a landscape architect and researcher with specialization in climate crisis and regional landscape design. Alex Albans is a research fellow at Birmingham City University where he studies the interpretation of land‑use processes, and lectures in landscape architecture. Paul Cureton is Director of Post-Graduate Research and Senior Lecturer in Design at ImaginationLancaster and a member of the Data Science Institute (DSI).
