Tenth International Conference on The Constructed Environment

Abstract

Climate change is likely to increase the frequency, intensity, and duration of extreme events in unpredictable ways such as sea level increase, more intense rainstorms, droughts, and heat waves. Cities are becoming more and more vulnerable to the forces of nature. The use of ecological (rather than engineering) resilience as a powerful metaphor is one of the important ways for connecting ecology with urban planning and for achieving the resilience of these systems. Landscape urbanism is one of the urban planning theories emerged in recent decades which puts landscape and ecology in a fundamental place in the structuring and planning of living environment and try to create varied opportunities to interact with nature. One of the main critiques that landscape urbanism mentions is that neo-traditional urban design perspective is not adequate to deal with the rapid change in urban areas. Moreover it aims functional landscapes rather than art of making beautiful landscapes. This study considers the landscape urbanism theory from the resiliency perspective and as well as try to criticize the meaning and the practices of the theory via reviewing of literature and analyzing case studies developed. It questions that if landscape plays a more structured role in the development of cities by acting as a kind of conveyance capable of moving people and supporting a variety of living systems. By bringing theory and practice together as such, this article contributes to the maturation of landscape urbanism discourse from a new perspective.