'Visible gestures': On urban landscape perspectives in planning

Abstract

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; collaboration

Published in

Planning Theory
2012, volume: 11, number: 1, pages: 5-19
Publisher: SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC

SLU Authors

• Lindholm, Gunilla

  • Department of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

Global goals (SDG)

SDG11 Sustainable cities and communities

UKÄ Subject classification

Landscape Architecture
Social Sciences
Economics and Business

Publication identifier

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1473095211400151

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/45865