June 10, 2009 - Third group meeting WG 02

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• date: June 10, 2009
• notestaker: Emel Baylan
• moderator: Heike Kaiser
• participants: Isin Barut, Aycim Turer Baskaya, Emel Baylan, Itziar Leon, Ellen Fetzer

Presentation of Case Studies (Tour de Table)

Itziar León: The Region of Madrid, Spain

• Landscape type: urban landscape (city center) and peri-urban patterns in the periphery of the city.
• Cultural features of Madrid city provide very high and dense population.
• Natural Features: mountain and plain characterization.
• Urban planning: Urbanisation and rurbanization; "Linear City": Structure and Garden City ideas (in 19th century).

• Discussion/Intersting aspects:
  • (Heike) Is it still the current planning style today?
  • (Ellen) Does it still have impact on the city and its periphery?
  • (Aycim) Was it applied ?
  • (Itziar) One part of Madrid (east part) was planned in this style.
  • (Itziar) The case study is basically about urban and landscape planning.
  • (Heike) Case study title should be edited.
  • (Ellen) Has Madrid developed very fast? Has the landscape been destroyed?
  • (Itziar) The development is concentrated in the urban city part. There is not much about nature conservation in the city periphery

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Further discussion of cross-cutting themes

• short presentation by participants about their suggested cross-cutting themes and joint questions
• discussing joint questions

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Joint Questions for cross-cutting themes (suggested)

1. How may landscape architecture contribute to the integration of different age groups, ethnics etc. in the 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 does rural start?
• Rur-urban
• Dynamics flows between urban and peri-urban areas
• Monitoring land-use change

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
• Creating green links for wholeness
• Greenbelt, agriculture as a part of it

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