
Landscape planning, city planning, sustainability
Branded Landscapes in Contemporary Cities
About this issue
Issue number
Volume 44 – Number 3
Summary
To what extent have we commodified landscapes and nature? How has this commodification influenced life in the city, including urban processes? Where do efforts to reclaim space within the city for nature fit in the power dynamics within cities? The papers in this issue present three perspectives on this instrumentalization of landscape and nature in cities: the paradigmatic, the urban and regional, and the local/personal.
Contents
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The Instrumentalization of Landscape in Contemporary Cities
TALI HATUKA and CRISTINA MATTIUCCI -
Reactionary Landscape: The Discourse of Naturalism as a Grand Narrative
FEDERICO FERRARI -
Beyond Pragmatism: Challenging the Generic Design of Public Parks in the Contemporary City
TALI HATUKA -
Branded Landscapes vs Reform of Ordinary Landscapes: An Insight from Italy
ARTURO LANZANI and CRISTIANA MATTIOLI -
Landscape as a Founding Element of the Contemporary Urban
CRISTINA MATTIUCCI -
One Landscape Multiple Meanings: Revisiting Contemporary Discourses on Urban Community Gardens
EFRAT EIZENBERG -
Nature and Well-Being in the French City: Desire and Homo Qualitus
LISE BOURDEAU-LEPAGE -
From Collective Urban Gardens to Individual Micro-Landscapes
ALESSIA DE BIASE, CAROLINA MUDAN MARELLI, and ORNELLA ZAZA - Publication Reviews
Cover image: Aerial view of St Stephen’s Green in the centre of Dublin. (Photo: CC Dronepicr, edited by King of Hearts)