Talk:Working Group Landscape Development in Peri-urban Landscapes

27.05.2009(first meeting with the special groups)-Group2

Step:1

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

Step-2) Clustering themes(2-4)

-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

Step-3) Discussion of themes -Small introduction from participants about their offered core-themes -connections of the themes -Finding questions of the connected 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?