Lindholm, Gunilla
- Department of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Abstract
This article brings together the concepts of land and landscape, tightly linked in urban transformative situations, but rarely used for the purpose to strengthen strategic planning for sustainability. They are investigated as a combined base for land use deliberations, in early phases of planning processes, in practices of different scale, especially in a European context, drawing on planning and landscape policies generally agreed upon, as well as the UN Sustainable Development Goals. This article argues for taking into consideration the landscape as experienced human habitat, in relation to the understanding of land as both a common resource, and as pieces of property. This is motivated partly by the more or less global political trend and the turn from state interventions to individualistic capitalism (calling for new methods to solve common challenges), but also by a changing planning profession, increased collaborative planning processes, increased significance of public space as a scarce resource in densified cities, the need for holistic perspectives in sustainable urban development and the need for unifying concepts for urban and rural land at a local and regional scale. A new concept "around-scape" is suggested, in order to make visible the subjective binding between available perceived resources and spatial transformation.
Keywords
urban land use change; landscape; land properties
Published in
Land
2019, volume: 8, number: 9, article number: 137
Publisher: MDPI
SLU Authors
Global goals (SDG)
SDG11 Sustainable cities and communities
UKÄ Subject classification
Landscape Architecture
Human Geography
Publication identifier
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/land8090137
Permanent link to this page (URI)
https://res.slu.se/id/publ/102143