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Adaptive reuse for leftover urban landscape: ruins, remains, waste and monsters for an approaching genealogy of future

Metta, Annalisa - In: Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable … 14 (2022) 1, pp. 98-109

Purpose This paper aims to explore the topic of adaptive reuse referring to urban open spaces into a more-than-human perspective. It underlines that dealing with heritage means being part of an inherent and ongoing process of transformation and so that reuse is inextricably an adaptive practice,...

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Incorporating Renewable Energy Science in Regional Landscape Design: Results from a Competition in The Netherlands

Waal, Renée M. de; Stremke, Sven; Hoorn, Anton van; … - In: Sustainability 7 (2015) 5, pp. 4806-4828

Energy transition is expected to make an important contribution to sustainable development. Although it is argued that landscape design could foster energy transition, there is scant empirical research on how practitioners approach this new challenge. The research question central to this study...

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Energy Transition: Missed Opportunities and Emerging Challenges for Landscape Planning and Designing

Waal, Renée M. de; Stremke, Sven - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 7, pp. 4386-4415

and opportunities to the discipline of landscape architecture, the questions addressed in this paper are: (1) what …>can be the arena where landscape architecture and other disciplines meet to pursue global sustainability goals, while … landscape architects can learn from successful energy transitions in Güssing, Jühnde and Samsø; and (2) to what extent landscape …

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Landscape, Legal, and Biodiversity Threats that Windows Pose to Birds: A Review of an Important Conservation Issue

Daniel Klem Jr. - In: Land 3 (2014) 1, pp. 351-361

Windows in human residential and commercial structures in urban, suburban, and rural landscapes contribute to the deaths of billions of birds worldwide. International treaties, federal, provincial, state, and municipal laws exist to reduce human-associated avian mortality, but are most often not...

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The Present Situation and Development Research of Recreation Ecology

ZHOU, Quan; HUANG, Guoqin; ZHAO, Qiguo - In: Asian Agricultural Research 05 (2013) 08

abroad. The relationship of recreation ecology and landscape ecology, landscape architecture, biological statistics and the …

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The regional-local nexus: a landscape-based integral design strategy for sustainable tourism development

Borsje, Jesper; Tak, Ruud - In: Tourism and Hospitality Management 19 (2013) 1, pp. 65-82

The purpose – The purpose of this project is to investigate what a landscape architecture approach could add to … can be developed in practice. The originality of this research – The landscape architecture approach fills the gap between … landscape architecture in sustainable tourism development is a new, but very interesting and promising addition to the current …

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Reinventing Detroit: Reclaiming Grayfields—New Metrics in Evaluating Urban Environments

Burley, Jon; Deyoung, Gina; Partin, Shawn; Rokos, Jason - In: Challenges 2 (2011) 4, pp. 45-54

Planners, designers, citizens, and governmental agencies are interested in creating environments that are sustainable and fulfill a wide range of economic, ecological, aesthetic, functional, and cultural expectations for stakeholders. There are numerous approaches and proposals to create such...

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From High Rise to Coast: Revitalizing Ribeira da Barcarena

Kondolf, G. Mathias M; Podolak, Kristen; Gaffney, Andrea - Institute of European Studies, UC Berkeley - 2010

The Lisbon metropolitan region has grown rapidly in population since 1970, due largely to the immigration of people from former Portuguese colonies in Africa and from rural areas of the country in pursuit of higher living standards. Much of this population growth was accommodated clustered...

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