Integrated Landscapes in Policy, Practice and Everyday Life

Foreword: Landscapes, Heritage, Sustainable Development

Francesco Bandarin                                

1. Introduction

Kathryn Moore, Paul Cureton, Alex Albans and Anastasia Nikologianni

Part 1: Integrated Visions

2. National Park Cities: Our Best Idea for the Future?      

Fiona Reynolds

3. Creating a National Park for the West Midlands

Caroline Spelman

4. A  National Park for Young People?

Michelle Farmer

5. A Vision for a City with Nature at its Heart

Emma Marsh

6. Landscape: A Fragmented Scene

Merrick Denton-Thompson

Focus Piece A: Landscape Architecture Students, Birmingham City University

Focus Piece B: Inner-Urban Landscapes and their Value in Urban Regeneration Processes

Tasos Roidis and Mark Michaeli

Part 2: Landscape Re-United

7. Cultural Landscape and Sustainable Development: Cultural Landscape Conservation Challenges in Bhutan

Roland Lin

8. The Hidden Landscape Infrastructure

Marina Cervera

9. Emscher Landscape Park: Urban Landscape as a Platform for Integrated Urban Development and the Implementation of Green and Blue Infrastructures

Michael Schwarze-Rodrian  

10. Making a Low Carbon Regional Design

Anastasia Nikologianni          

11. The SATURN Pan European Project: Cross-Border and Cross-Practice Approaches for Urban/Rural Linkages towards Climate Adaptation

Sara Favargiotti, Angelica Pianegonda, Alessandro Betta, Anastasia Nikologianni, Kathryn Moore, Marco Ciolli , Elisa Morganti, Martin Berg, Bodil Elmqvist, Anna Ternell, Anders Nilsson, and Alessandro Gretter     

12. Developing Integrated Approaches as Tools for Better Place-Making

Sadie Morgan

Focus Piece C: The Future City is Nature-Based

Mette Skjod    

Focus Piece D: Bigger, Better, More Joined-UP Partnerships – The Tame Valley Wetlands Landscape Partnership

Tim Haselden and Ian Wykes              

Part 3: Re-Citing Landscape

12. Landscape as Battlefield of the New Economy

Merten Nefs   

14. Mobilis in Mobile: A Guiding Principle for the Anthropocene 

Dirk Sijmons  

15. Atlas for a City-Region: Imagining the Post-Brexit Landscapes of the Irish Northwest

Gareth Doherty            

16. Landscape: A Relationship that Needs Reconciling?

Alex Albans    

17. How Did We Succeed in Matera? The Oasis Model and New UNESCO Landscape Vision

Pietro Laureano          

18. The Mountain-Water-Field-City System: Chinese Territorial Landscape

Xiangrong Wang and Qing Lin             

19. A Framework to Enable New Ways of Landscape Scale Thinking and Practice

Claudia Carter, Louis Durrant and Alister Scott

20. Blueprints for the Future: Regional Planning, Landscape and the Neo-Garden City

Paul Cureton 

Focus Piece E: Recognising the Value of a View: The Economic Value of Social Media in Landscape Architecture

Scott Dyde

Focus Piece F: Growing Social Spaces: Farming and Food Growing as Part of the Urban Landscape

Chris Blythe and Veronica Barry

Biography

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).