Working Group Landscape Development in Peri-urban Landscapes

Case Studies of this working group

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The Landscape Context

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Cross-Cutting Questions of this Working Group

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Synthesis of core questions

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Minutes of this Working Group

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27.05.2009

Case Studies

1.Thelma Hisayasu and Paulo Pellegrino Agriculture in Sao-Paulo Urban Fringe South of San-Paulo: - Flooding area -Biosphere Reserve Area-city is in this area

How agriculture is important for the city -It is traditional(part of the green belt) -Agriculture sites in forets also -Creating integration in the city

2.Isin Barut Green Links for Wilhelmsburg

-Wilhelmsburg is a district of Hamburg -Europes biggest river island -Inhabitants from different nationalities -Creating green links for developping the statüe of the island -Design and planning together

3.Aycim Baskaya Istanbul as a Metropolitan City -Biggest city of Turkey -Urban growing, land fills and urban fringe 1990-unfunctional urban fringe areas(nowadays they are surronding with residentals -Problems:Non functional peri-urban, urban areas, lanscape changes

4.Emel Baylan Van City and Lake -Geographic location of Van-iranian boarder -Lake Van-biggest lake of Turkey -Rural area in different aspects(life qualities,areas etc) -What can lansdcape planning do in contributing rural development Increase the quality of life styles -Lake lansdcapes effects of the Urban area

Core Themes

-Agriculture in the urban fringe

-Agriculture as a green infrastructure element -Green infrastructure

-Aesthetic quality

-Quality of life in rur-urban areas

-Flexibility of life styles

-Environmental quality

-Creating green links for wholeness

-Greenbelt, agriculture as a part of it

-Where rural starts

-Rur-urban

-Monitoring land-use change

-Integration in an urban area

-Dynamics flows between urban and peri-urban areas

Discussion of themes -Small introduction from participants about their offered core-themes -connections of the themes -Finding questions of the connected themes

Main Questions of the core themes

1.How may landscape architecture contribute to integration of different age groups,ethnics etc in urban fringe? -integration in an urban area -quality of life in rur-urban areas -flexiblity of life styles

2.How can the transformation process be connected with the landscape sub-typologies?

3.How may landscape planning contribute to quality improvement?

4.The maintenance and development of agricultural land-use in urban fringes can be a strategy of a greenbelt?