Resources Seminar Landscape Democracy 2015

Policy frameworks, laws and resolutions

United Nations

• The Aarhus Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters

Council of Europe

• The European Landscape Convention
• Presentation of the report Landscape and democracy: prospects by Yves Luginbühl for the Council of Europe

European Union (Parliament and Council)

• Directive on public access to environmental information
• Directive providing for public participation in respect of the drawing up of certain plans and programmes relating to the environment
• Strategic Environmental Assessment Directive
• Water Framework Directive

International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA-Europe)

• Landscape Democracy Resolution

Landscape Concepts

• Antrop, Marc; Kühne, Olaf (2015) Concepts of Landscape, in: Landscape Culture - Culturing Landscapes. The Differentiated Construction of Landscapes (Bruns, Kühne, Schönwald, Theile ed.)

• Burckhardt, Lucius (1979): Why is landscape beautiful? in: Fezer/Schmitz (Eds.) Rethinking Man-made Environments (2012)

• Cosgrove, Denis (2004): Landscape and Landschaft. Lecture delivered at the “Spatial Turn in History” Symposium, German Historical Institute, February 19, 2004.

• Cosgrove, Denis. (1985): Prospect, Perspective and the Evolution of the Landscape Idea. In: Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, New Series, Vol. 10, No. 1 (1985),pp. 45-62. Published by: Blackwell Publishing on behalf of The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers).

• Kucan, Ana (2007). Constructing Landscape Conceptions. In: ECLAS (ed.). JoLA spring 2007, 30-41. Munich: Callwey.

• Jackson, John Brinckerhoff (1980): "By way of conclusion. How to study the landscape" In: The necessity for ruins, and other topics, 113-126. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press.

• Lynch, Kevin. (1960): The Image of the City, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press

• Meinig, D. W. (1979): "The Beholding Eye: Ten Versions of the Same Scene." In: The Interpretation of Ordinary Landscapes: Geographical Essays, edited by D. W. Meinig and John Brinckerhoff Jackson, 33-48. New York: Oxford University Press.

• Meinig, D.W. (1979): "Reading the landscape. An appreciation of W.G. Hoskins and J-B. Jackson." In: The Interpretation of ordinary landscapes: Geographical essays, edited by D. W. Meinig and John Brinckerhoff Jackson, 195-237. New York: Oxford University Press.

• Olwig, Kenneth R. (1996): "Recovering the Substantive Nature of Landscape" In: Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 86 (4), pp. 630-653. Cambridge/Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.

• Sieverts, Thomas (2003): Cities without cities. An interpretation of the Zwischenstadt. English language ed. London: Spon Press.

Participation Discourse and Concepts

• Arnstein, Sherry R.(1969): A Ladder of Citizen Participation, JAIP, Vol. 35, No. 4

• Burckhardt, Lucius (1957): Urban Planning and Democracy in: Fezer/Schmitz (Eds.) Rethinking Man-made Environments (2012)

• Burckhardt, Lucius (1974): Who plans the planning? in: Fezer/Schmitz (Eds.) Rethinking Man-made Environments (2012)

• Faga, Barbara (2006): Designing Public Consensus: The Civic Theater of Community Participation for Architects, Landscape Architects, Planners, and Urban Designers, Wiley (not open access)

• Patsy Healey (2004): Creativity and Urban Governance (not open access)

• Patsy Healey (1992): Planning through debate: The Communicative Turn in Planning Theory, The Town Planning Review

• Natarajan, Lucy (2015): Socio-spatial learning: A case study of community knowledge in participatory spatial planning, in: Progress in Plannig

• Sanoff, Henry (1999): Community Participation Methods in Design and Planning, Wiley (partly available via google books)

• Sanoff, Henry (2014): Multiple Views of Participatory Design, Focus

• Sayer, Jeffrey; et al.; (2013): Ten principles for a landscape approach to reconciling agriculture, conservation, and other competing land uses

• Jones, Michael, Stenseke, Marie (Eds.)(2001): The European Landscape Convention : challenges of participation, Springer (not open access)

• Selle, Klaus (1994): Was ist bloß mit der Planung los? Erkundungen auf dem Weg zum kooperativen Handeln.(GERMAN, not open access)

• Newman, Oscar (1972) Creating defensible places

• Webler, Thomas et al.: Public participation in decision making - A three-step procedure

• Webler, Thomas; Tuler, S., and Krueger, R. 2001. What is a good public participation process? Five perspectives from the public. Environmental Management 27(3):435-450.

Methods and Tools

• LIFEscape Handbook on Participative Landscape Planning

• UN-Habitat Global Toolkit for Public Space (see report: Placemaking and the Future of Cities)

• Participatory Action Research Toolkit: An Introduction to Using PAR as an Approachto Learning, Research and Action

• Project for Public Spaces (PPS): Ten Strategies for Transforming Cities and Public Spaces through Placemaking

• 'Reading the Landscape' by Simon Bell, EMU Tartu