Will we manage, by the end of this decade, to get the tools and techniques in place that the scientists believe are our last chance to secure a habitable environment?
This sixth edition of the book series Landscape Architecture Europe presents and reflects on 63 contemporary projects, selected by a practitioners’ jury, out of over 200 entries from all over Europe. The selected projects are groundbreaking: some for their innovative ways of tackling sustainability, others for their political stance concerning concepts such as nature and democracy.They demonstrate the ability of landscape architects to come up with convincing conceptual and physical answers to burning questions - by responding sensitively to sites and their various life forms, and by translating abstract sustainability ideas into spatial solutions.
This richly illustrated book offers thought-provoking texts in support of four landscape architectural approaches to the challenges of the 21st century:
- Europe’s commitment: Working with Grand Challenges
- Europe’s strength: Public Spaces
- Where we live today: Landscapes as Mind-Openers
- What we need to develop: Landscapes for urban futures
Will we manage, by the end of this decade, to get the tools and techniques in place that the scientists believe are our last chance to secure a habitable environment?
This sixth edition of the book series Landscape Architecture Europe presents and reflects on 63 contemporary projects, selected by a practitioners’ jury, out of over 200 entries from all over Europe. The selected projects are groundbreaking: some for their innovative ways of tackling sustainability, others for their political stance concerning concepts such as nature and democracy.They demonstrate the ability of landscape architects to come up with convincing conceptual and physical answers to burning questions - by responding sensitively to sites and their various life forms, and by translating abstract sustainability ideas into spatial solutions.
This richly illustrated book offers thought-provoking texts in support of four landscape architectural approaches to the challenges of the 21st century:
- Europe’s commitment: Working with Grand Challenges
- Europe’s strength: Public Spaces
- Where we live today: Landscapes as Mind-Openers
- What we need to develop: Landscapes for urban futures
