Research Agenda for Landscape Studies of Planning

Edited by Mattias Qviström, Professor in Landscape Architecture, Department of Urban and Rural Development, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden

‘This is a vital contribution at a moment when we urgently must rethink our relationships to life and land. All major challenges currently facing human societies lay, in a way or the other, at the interface of nature and culture. Landscape is an invaluable common ‘matter of concern’ for understanding how these multi-dimensional, intertwined challenges unfold in the physical and social world, and for exploring ways of tackling them. The authors of this fascinating, polyhedric book, equip us with the conceptual tools we need for the journey.’

• Contents1 On the necessity for landscape studies of planning 1Mattias Qviström2 Planning for trouble: landscapes shaped to defend against water in New Orleans, USA 17Craig E. Colten3 Landscape and extinction 31Ben Garlick4 Energy landscapes and the transition to sustainable energy 45Vanesa Castán Broto5 Forest fires, conflict, and disrupted landscapes 59Andrew Butler and Annette Löf6 Insurgent Indigenous practices and the guardianship of cultural landscapes 75Cassino Doyle and Michelle Thompson-Fawcett7 Troubling urban therapeutic landscapes 91Karolina Doughty and Juliet Drukker8 Unlocking peri-urban planning potential through a landscape lens 103Alister Scott, Matthew Kirby and Michael Hardman9 Recognising the voluminous agencies of extractive landscapes: a critical agenda 117Amelia Hine10 Urbanism histories of landscape and ecology 131Koenraad Danneels11 Landscape ethnography as an ‘undisciplined’ methodology for design and planning 143Nik Luka12 Rethinking the right to landscape in Norra Sorgenfri, Malmö 157Erik Jönsson13 Landscape futures: weaving together past, present, and future 171Hannes Palang14 On moving ahead, staying put, and engaging fully with Landscape Studies of Planning 179Mattias Qviström, Nik Luka, Andrew Butler, Vanesa Castán Broto, Karolina Doughty, Ben Garlick, Amelia Hine, Matthew Kirby, Hannes Palang, Alister Scott and Michelle Thompson-Fawcett