Defining Landscape Democracy

Edited by Shelley Egoz, formerly School of Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Landscape and Society, the late Karsten Jørgensen, School of Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Landscape and Society, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway and Deni Ruggeri, Assistant Professor, Plant Science and Landscape Architecture, University of Maryland, US

'''Land belongs to someone but landscape belongs to everyone'' sums up for me the message at the heart of this important book. Politically the world is at a crossroads and landscape, be it through the European Landscape Convention or as urban space occupied by a new wave of activists, literally forms a stage for playing out conflicts. I believe that the book is needed right now as a starting point for a new approach to landscape for the twenty-first century.'--Simon Bell, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Estonia'This international collection of papers has its roots in multiple interpretations of democratic principles. All its authors share the view that people who are affected by design and planning decisions should be included in the process of making those decisions. In sum, the authors expand the traditional boundaries of landscape thinking in theory and practice to make this an invaluable contribution for all audiences.'--Henry Sanoff, North Carolina State University, US'The world we inhabit is increasingly created by developers unconcerned about justice, facilitated by governments fiddling while democracy smoulders. This anthology searches for ways to reverse this trend. The contributors pose questions seldom raised in the making of the city. By asking the right questions they provide uniquely hopeful alternatives that show how to bend the arc of the universe towards justice.'--Randolf T. Hester, University of California and Center for Ecological Democracy, US

• Contents:ForewordPreface IntroductionSECTION A FRAMING THE DISCOURSE1. Democratic theories and potential for influence for civil society in spatial planning processes Lillin Knudtzon2. Landscape democracy: more than public participation?Michael Jones3. Landscape architecture and the discourse of democracy in the Arab Middle East Jala Makhzoumi4. Exploring the concept of ‘democratic landscape’ Benedetta Castiglioni and Viviana Ferrario5. Shatter-zone democracy? What rising sea levels portend for future governanceCharles Geisler6. Making the case for landscape democracy: context and nuances Shelley Egoz, Karsten Jørgensen and Deni RuggeriSECTION B CONTEXTUALISING LANDSCAPE DEMOCRACY7. Towards democratic professionalism in landscape architecture Paula Horrigan and Mallika Bose8. Landscape assessment as conflict and consensus Andrew Butler9. Invisible and visible lines: landscape democracy and landscape practice Richard Alomar10. Enacting landscape democracy: assembling public open space and asserting the right to the city Joern Langhorst11. Public space and social ideals: revisiting Vienna’s Donaupark Lilli Lička, Ulrike Krippner and Nicole Theresa King12. Storytelling as a catalyst for democratic landscape change in a Modernist utopia Deni Ruggeri13. Democracy and trespass: political dimensions of landscape access Tim Waterman14. Rural landscape governance and expertise: on landscape agents and democracy Jørgen Primdahl, Lone Søderkvist Kristensen, Finn Arler, Per Angelstam, Andreas Aagaard Christensen and Marine Elbakidze15. Managing cherished landscapes across legal boundariesMorten Clemetsen and Knut Bjørn Stokke16. Landscape as the spatial materialisation of democracy in Marinaleda, Spain Emma López-Bahut and Luz Paz-Agras17. Planning the cultural and social reactivation of urban open spaces in Greek metropoles of crisisEleni Oureilidou18. Landscape democracy in the upgrading of informal settlements in Medelín, ColombiaEva Schwab19. Learning from Occupy Gezi Park: redefining landscape democracy in an age of ‘planetary urbanism’ Burcu Yiğit-Turan20. Democracy and the communicative dimension of public art Beata SirowyIndex