Landscape approach : from local communities to territorial systems / Hannes Zander, Shelagh McCartney, Samantha Solano, Sonja Vangjeli.
Contributor(s): Zander, Hannes [editor.] | McCartney, Shelagh [editor.] | Solano, Samantha [editor.] | Vangjeli, Sonja [editor.]
Material type: TextEdition: First editionDescription: 304 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 25 cmISBN: 9781954081239; 1954081235Subject(s): Sustainable urban development | Urban landscape architecture | City planning -- Environmental aspects | Urban ecology (Sociology) | Urbanisme durable | Paysage urbain | Écologie urbaine | urban landscapes | urban environments | City planning -- Environmental aspects | Sustainable urban development | Urban ecology (Sociology) | Urban landscape architectureDDC classification: 307.1/416 LOC classification: HT241 | .L359 2022Summary: The book promotes a landscape approach as a method for understanding and addressing the complex interdependent issues of environmental and climatic change, ecological degradation, and socio-cultural inequalities. The twenty-three book essays are structured into five sections around concepts of urban landscape systems, ecology, politics, territory, and practice. By linking individual sites and local communities to territorial socio-ecological systems and processes, they discuss issues of urban growth and development, remote areas of extraction and production, environmental degradation and transformation, and social inequality and discrimination. While the book allows for parallel readings of such issues in multiple cultural and geographical contexts, a geographic focus is placed on Canada and other environmentally complex and sensitive northern regions. One key theme is the integration of Indigenous knowledge, experience, and storytelling throughout several of the chapters. The book draws lessons that are grounded in inclusive, contextual, and multi-scalar readings which suggest landscape-informed practices that are both socially and environmentally resilient, just, and sustainable.Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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B.PLAN | BMS College of Architecture | 307.1/416 (Browse shelf) | Available | AR-UG4020 |
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The book promotes a landscape approach as a method for understanding and addressing the complex interdependent issues of environmental and climatic change, ecological degradation, and socio-cultural inequalities. The twenty-three book essays are structured into five sections around concepts of urban landscape systems, ecology, politics, territory, and practice. By linking individual sites and local communities to territorial socio-ecological systems and processes, they discuss issues of urban growth and development, remote areas of extraction and production, environmental degradation and transformation, and social inequality and discrimination. While the book allows for parallel readings of such issues in multiple cultural and geographical contexts, a geographic focus is placed on Canada and other environmentally complex and sensitive northern regions. One key theme is the integration of Indigenous knowledge, experience, and storytelling throughout several of the chapters. The book draws lessons that are grounded in inclusive, contextual, and multi-scalar readings which suggest landscape-informed practices that are both socially and environmentally resilient, just, and sustainable.
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