Literature and Resources Cultural Landscapes 2010

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Lecture Documents and Concept Maps


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Thematic fields according to the 2010 ECLAS conference "Cultural Landscapes"

Thematic map "Cultural Landscapes"

Cultural Landscapes: Education, research methods and approaches

such as profession based education, multi-disciplinary education, interdisciplinary education etc.


Responses of cultural landscapes to changing natural processes

such as climate change, re-colonization of abandoned lands, impact of emerging need for sustainability etc.


Landscapes as a reflection of changing cultural processes

such as globalization, multiculturalism, emerging awareness to sustainability, etc.


Technology as a driver of cultural landscape change

such as international styles, disappearing vernacular styles as a result of increased visual images through internet as well as advanced technology to enable new construction methods and techniques and capability to use new materials or recycled materials, etc.


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TOPOS articles

Topos 47/2004 Landscape concepts

Behind every change in the landscape picture are social and economic mechanisms for which we are all to blame, some of us more than others, depending on what we put in our shopping basket or where we go for the weekend. This is also where an important task for landscape architects lies. Its a great challenge to participate in creating the social, economic and legal framework conditions that shape the landscape from the outset. Another is also to find an up-date aesthetic expression.


  • Kucan, Ana: The future for Slovenian cultural landscapes Economic change calls for a new spatial planning policy. However, often conservative thought stands in the way.
  • Isman, Fabio: Less Tuscany, more Berlusconi A new law on monuments and landscape preservation in Italy now makes the demolition and sale of cultural property possible.
  • Kuhn, Rolf: Changing the landscape of Lusatia Open-cut mining has devastated the landscape of Lusatia. The restoration effort takes two conflicting scenarios into consideration.
  • Krebs, Stefanie and Franzen, Brigitte: Cultures of landscape Landscape is no longer a term tied to place or nation but an iconographic and creative practice of complex cultures.
  • Sieferle, Rolf Peter: Total Landscape Constructing new landscapes or protecting old structures - both presuppose having been legitimised by society.


Topos 56/2006 Cultural Landscapes

All over the world, the economic activities of mankind leave their mark on the landscape. Depending on land use, topography and climate, cultural landscapes differ greatly. Besides covering the preservation and rehabilitation of particular cultural landscapes, this issue of Topos focuses mainly on the transformations of landscapes and the challenges for planners involved. Examples range from an Italian wind farm to Bangkok's aquacultural landscape.


  • Moderini, Daniela and Selano, Giovanni: Windscapes The experimental wind farms of San Chirico and Spina combine renewable energy and information technologies with the region's distinguished culture to create an innovative strategy for communicating the landscape's inherent complexity.
  • Briand, Gilles and Mousquet, François-Xavier: Reversing the Image of a Coal Basin Long regarded as a serious handicap, the coal basin's brownfield sites in the French Nord Pas de Calais region, heritage of a glorious industrial past, constitute an experimental laboratory for the regeneration of derelict post-industrial land. http://www.topos.de/media/Heftthema/d26ec62d_Basin.pdf
  • Bokern, Anneke: Westergasfabriek Cultural Park The interim cultural uses of the former gasworks in Amsterdam led to converting the grounds into a "cultural park". The design intends to demonstrate transformations in the relationship between humans and nature over the last century.
  • McGrath, Brian and Thaitakoo, Danai: Bangkok`s Agri- and Aquacultural Fringe Bangkok's contemporary transportation system reflects ancient layers of waterborne urbanism overlaid with a modern automobile-driven metropolis. Between these conditions, a fresh opportunity arises to re-assess the composite cultural landscape for future bio-energy production. http://www.topos.de/media/Heftthema/f2dd7b91_Agri.pdf
  • Dailami, Ahmed and Doherty, Gareth: Cultural Continuums in Bahrain Bahrain is experiencing a tumultuous period of restructuring and expansion with an architectural language rooted in a silently salient binary of traditional versus contemporary. Transition and change are not new to Bahrain, having formed an assortment of landscapes that speak of a far more varied and complex place.
  • Russian Coutnry Estates Primarily a country base for the bourgeois, the usadba had a significant social role in pre-revolutionary Russia. Although many are now in ruins, and the needs and structure of society have changed, the agency of the usadba as a cultural hub and focus for rural communities is being rediscovered.
  • O'Donnell, Patricia M.: Preserving Designed Cultural Landscapes There is a broad legacy of cultural landscapes as designed, evolved, relic and associative properties in the USA. While cultural landscapes of all types hold interest for the planning professions, understanding the designed landscape and intervening to further its preservation is most readily taken up by design professionals.
  • Playdon, Dennis: Acoma - A Landscape of Settlement There is a broad legacy of cultural landscapes as designed, evolved, relic and associative properties in the USA. While cultural landscapes of all types hold interest for the planning professions, understanding the designed landscape and intervening to further its preservation is most readily taken up by design professionals. http://www.topos.de/media/Heftthema/c9811c28_Acoma.pdf
  • Shannon, Kelly: Drosscape New landscapes are continuously created while others are destroyed. The cultural landscapes of the 21st century include the globe's vast post-industrial landscapes, and territories simply consumed by sprawling development.
  • Krebs, Stefanie: Art and Landscape Artscape Nordland presents 33 works of art in the Norwegian fjord landscape. Different positions on art and landscape range from staging elementary forces and creating spaces for social interaction to re-romanticization and the sublime.
  • Ranatunga, Priyanka: Cultural Landscape and Tsunami Resettlement Following the 2004 tsunami in Sri Lanka, landscape architects re-interpreted ancient human settlement patterns in order to re-locate affected peoples into culturally and ecological sensitive communities.
  • Adams, Ann: Dimbangombe Project – A Holistic Landscape Approach Over the past decade there has been increasing interest in natural capitalism and a holistic approach to resource management. The Dimbangombe Project in Zimbabwe focuses on creating a healthy landscape.
  • Positioning Contemporary Landscape Architecture in China In an era of multiple unprecedented challenges imposed by the processes of industrialization and urbanization, landscape architecture is now on the verge of change in China. It is time for this profession to take the great opportunity to position itself to play the key role in rebuilding the Land of Peach Blossoms for a new society of urbanized, globalized and inter-connected people.


Topos 66/2009 Landscape Strategies

People live in cultural landscapes; they change their environments to suit economic requirements or through the way they manage their affairs. In the process, they often exhibit a strong urge to shape things, creating completely new landscapes by means of landfill islands or interventions in the existing vegetation. Landscape strategies encompass both urban and rural landscapes, the latter often being in a state of gradual or sudden transition to becoming urban.


  • Mega-urban open spaces

A joint German-Moroccan research project is exploring new forms of urban agriculture which could offer a solution for open space provision in the mega-cities of tomorrow.Author: Giseke, Undine, Kasper, Christoph, Martin-Han, Silvia

Metrobosco & Co. Metrobosco & Co. Urban forests gain increasing importance from the point of view of sustainable urban development. Besides being sustainable they are also ecological, economical and above all media-effective. The Metrobosco project for Milan is exemplary.Author: Capatti, Tancredi

No Idea Where It Comes From No Idea Where It Comes From This is a study (by Seiwooo) of the potential changes of the world map and an analysis of its modification from now to the year 2048. It aims to develop critical views on the new trend of sustainability in urban planning and to stimulate those involved to be more conscious of the possible disastrous outcomes.Author: Mannisi, Alban

Wild Side: Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni Wild Side: Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni Salt flats, volcanoes and multi-coloured lakes meet tourism and mining in Bolivia’s southwest.Author: Wintle, Sarah

Detroit: Scale of Crisis = Scale of Intervention Detroit: Scale of Crisis = Scale of Intervention The Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge, designed by Hamilton Anderson Associates, is a performative intervention equipped to help people navigate multi-scalar, multi-dimensional urban voids. The project considers the urban void as dynamic, contradictory, and the majority within a post-industrial urban fabric.Author: Dittmer, Melissa

Blue Isles Plan Blue Isles Plan A series of artificial dune islands off the coast of Belgium and the Netherlands will provide new homes embedded in a leisure-based environment. The plan by West 8 combines a need for new land with an agenda for safety.Author: Geuze, Adriaan

Landscape of Extremes Landscape of Extremes The regional plan by Gross.Max for a 75-kilometre stretch along the coastline of the Dead Sea in Jordan proposes sustainable development to harness the unique natural assets, tackle environmental and social issues and stimulate a sustainable economy. The revealing of elementary natural processes and hidden layers of the landscape has generated a comprehensive set of plans.Author: Hooftman, Eelco

Imaging Dubai’s Palm Islands Imaging Dubai’s Palm Islands The Construction of Land and Representation through the Satellite ViewAuthor: Jazairy, El Hadi

Nansen Park, Oslo Nansen Park, Oslo In 1998, Oslo’s International Airport left the Fornebu Peninsula, and what remained was a depressing wasteland. Today, a new park and development area has been created by Bjørbekk & Lindheim, with visual references to ancient natural forms and the former runways.Author: Lindheim, Tone

Revealing the Landscape Qualities Revealing the Landscape Qualities The strategy by Strootman Landscape Architects for one of the most beautiful areas in the Netherlands, the Drentsche Aa River valley, brings the drama of the existing landscape to life and reveals its historical layers.Author: Strootman, Berno, Zaragoza, Anne

Shelby Farms Park Shelby Farms Park Parks enhance the competitiveness of cities while making a contribution to sustainable urban development. Unification, amplification, incubation, diversification and loosening are five approaches that help bring about the success of large-scale planning. Shelby Farms Park in Memphis by field operations is exemplary.Author: Corner, James

Design by Deletion: The Tockachi Mellennium Forest Design by Deletion: The Tockachi Mellennium Forest On Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido, a forest park for the next thousand years is taking shape. Through a steady and diligent process, designers are gradually revealing the wonders of the landscape.Author: Fumiaki , Takano

The Wolong Master Plan The Wolong Master Plan In the Chinese province of Sichuan, which was devastated by an earthquake in 2008, a new approach to redevelopment is taking shape – one that puts the landscape first.Author: Bassett, Shannon

The Peasants and the Genesis of Mega-Urban Landscapes The Peasants and the Genesis of Mega-Urban Landscapes The role of urban villages in the development of mega-urbanism in ChinaAuthor: Ipsen, Detlev

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