May 27, 2009 - First group meeting
date: May 27, 2009 notestaker: Isin Barut moderator: Heike Kaiser participants: Thelma Hisayasu, Isin Barut, Aycim Baskaya, Emel Baylan, Prof. Diedrich Bruns
Presentation of 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 -Europe's 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 border -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
Finding 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 core themes
-Small introduction from participants about their offered core-themes -connections of the themes -Finding questions of the connected themes
Joint Questions for 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 - Flexibility of life styles
2.How can the transformation process be connected with the landscape sub-typologies?
- Where rural starts - Rur-urban - Dynamics flows between urban and peri-urban areas
3.How may landscape planning contribute to quality improvement?
- Aesthetic quality - Environmental quality - Social quality
4.The maintenance and development of agricultural land-use in urban fringes can be a strategy of a greenbelt?
-Agriculture in the urban fringe -Agriculture as a green infrastructure element -Green infrastructure -Monitoring land-use change -Creating green links for wholeness -Greenbelt, agriculture as a part of it