Research article - Peer-reviewed, 2012
'Visible gestures': On urban landscape perspectives in planning
Lindholm, GunillaAbstract
In spite of the frequent use of landscape representations in planning, 'the urban landscape' is rarely the focus in discussions within planning practice or planning theory, be it in terms of representations or as a socio-material framework for planning actions. Instead it appears to be taken for granted and in this way affects planning theory and practice, leaving planning activities (professional as well as participatory) as rather haphazard events, hard to contextualize and to foresee any consequences of. Taking the landscape for granted excludes the possibility of discussing the differences between understanding the changing urban landscape from representations and understanding it in relation to experienced realities. This text argues for increased interdisciplinary elaborations on the meaning and content of urban landscape, by linking it to discourses in planning theory, urban theory and landscape theory.Keywords
urban landscape; urban planning; landscape concepts; representations; collaborationPublished in
Planning Theory2012, volume: 11, number: 1, pages: 5-19
Publisher: SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
Authors' information
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Landskapsarkitektur
Sustainable Development Goals
SDG11 Sustainable cities and communities
UKÄ Subject classification
Landscape Architecture
Social Sciences
Economics and Business
Publication Identifiers
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1473095211400151
URI (permanent link to this page)
https://res.slu.se/id/publ/45865