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The Geobotanical Map of Belgium (Jean Massart, Esquisse de la géographie botanique de la Belgique 1910 ).
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Urban Resilience is seen by many as a tool to mitigate harm in times of extreme social, political, financial, and environmental stress. Despite its widespread usage, however, resilience is used in different ways by policy makers, activists, academics, and practitioners. Some see it as a key to unlocking a more stable and secure urban future in time...
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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC,2023) has asked developed nations to decarbonise by 2040, ten years earlier than previously agreed. However, global leaders are challenged to transition to a low carbon present, rapidly, equitably, and holistically. Cities look to local governance and local organisations for lessons on urban transformation for resilient, sustainable communities. Non-academics wonder why researchers are not doing more to implement and operationalise climate solutions. So how can we facilitate urban transformation adapted to climate change? What form and shape of the urban built environment will facilitate resilient, sustainable communities?
Answers to both these questions emerge from reflection on 22 years combined professional experience as an urban designer/ architect, and an academic literature review on Resilient Urbanism. Presented are practice lessons from Sustainable Urbanism and open-ended questionnaire survey feedback from Londoners, on what they need from their homes and neighbourhoods, based on their experience of the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown.
Considering both practice experience and current literature, a vision for a sustainable urban community is discussed in a specific place-based context, namely Old Kent Road, London. Highlighted are key tenets for infill, intensification, complete neighbourhoods, urban greening, walkable infrastructure, local employment, food production, community owned facilities and phased revitalisation to avoid displacing existing communities.
The current state of our planet gives rise to a range of new perspectives in the environmental humanities that take « multispecies » viewpoints into account. These voices are often framed as « more-than-human » research, as they criticize the deeply anthropocentric worldviews that fuel environmental degradation and acknowledge the imbricated nature of humans and nonhumans. This article reflects on a design studio as an attempt to translate often complex and abstract conversations in more-than-human literature into concrete methods, plans and approaches for landscape architecture. The exercise in the Eure valley, a design studio at the École Nationale Supérieure de Paysage in Versailles, can be understood as a case study within a larger research interest, trying to understand the role of landscape design in (re)shaping human-nature relations and to connect landscape architecture practice to ongoing conversations in more-than-human literature. In this paper, we describe three different lessons drawn from the student design studio as possible directions for multispecies approaches in landscape architecture.
The current state of our planet gives rise to a range of new perspectives in the environmental humanities that take “multispecies” viewpoints into account. These voices are often framed as “more-than-human” research, as they criticize the deeply anthropocentric worldviews that fuel environmental degradation and acknowledge the imbricated nature of humans and nonhumans. This article reflects on a design studio as an attempt to translate often complex and abstract conversations in more-than-human literature into concrete methods, plans and approaches for landscape architecture. The design studio at the École nationale supérieure de Paysage in Versailles (ENSP Versailles) exploring the Eure valley can be understood as a case study within a larger research interest area, as it tries to understand the role of landscape design in (re)shaping human-nature relations and to connect landscape architecture practices to ongoing conversations in more-than-human literature. In this paper, we describe three different lessons drawn from the student design studio as possible directions for multispecies approaches in landscape architecture.
