May 27, 2009 - First group meeting WG 02

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  • 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 (Tour de Table)

Thelma Hisayasu and Paulo Pellegrino: Agriculture as a green infrastructure element 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

  • traditional land use / part of the green belt
  • Agriculture sites also in the forest
  • Creating integration in the city

for more information on this case study: Agriculture in São Paulo urban fringe


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 developing the status of the island
  • Design and planning together

for more information on this case study: Green links for Wilhelmsburg


Aycim Baskaya: Istanbul as a Metropolitan City

  • Biggest city of Turkey
  • Urban growth, land fills and urban fringe
  • 1990: unfunctional urban fringe areas(nowadays they are surrounded with residentials)
  • Problems: Non-functional peri-urban, urban areas, landscape changes

for more information on this case study: Peri-Urban Areas of Istanbul


Emel Baylan: Van City and Lake

  • Geographic location of Van on the Iranian border
  • Lake Van = biggest lake of Turkey
  • Lake landscapes effect the urban area
  • Rural area due to different aspects (life qualities, land use etc.)
  • What can landscape planning do:
    • to contribute in the rural development and
    • to increase the quality of life styles

for more information on this case study: The City of Van


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Finding cross-cutting 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 cross-cutting themes

  • short introduction by participants about their offered core-themes
  • discussing connections of the themes
  • finding questions due to connected themes

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Joint Questions for cross-cutting themes (suggested)

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 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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