Landscape Planning and Management

Recommended Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of the c.u.s Urban Project and Architecture and City.

Teaching Methods

Fundamentally theoretical-practical teaching model, balancing, in a balanced way, theoretical expositions, presentation and discussion of practical cases on all topics to be addressed and challenges of intense critical participation on the part of students.

Learning Outcomes

Know the concept and diversity of landscapes.

Identify the factors, agents and dynamics of landscape transformation.

Know the role of landscape in spatial planning instruments.

To know operatively the role of green in territorial and urban dynamics.

Knowing the operative dynamics of landscape and green in the construction of urban resilience and sustainability.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

. The city, the landscape and the environment: evolution and convergence of concepts.

2. Landscape dynamics: factors and agents.

3. Landscape planning and protection in the legal system of spatial planning.

4. The Green component in the landscape and in the urban.

5. The diversity of types of green space.

6. The landscape as a tool to combat climate change.

7. Strategies for sustainable landscape management.

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Synthesis work: 40.0%
Mini Tests: 60.0%

Bibliography

Benedict, M.A.; E.T. McMahon (2006), Green Infraestructure: Linking Landscapes and Comunities. Island Press.

Fellman, J.D.; Getis, A.; GETIS, J. (1990), Human Geography Landscapes of Human Activites. McGraw-Hill. 2013

Howard, P.; Thompson, I.; Waterton, E.; ATHA, M. (2013), The Routledge Companion to Landscape Studies. Routledge. 2013

Lawrence, H. W. (2006). City Trees. Virginia University Press. 2006

Ramsey, J.; Taylor, K. (ed.) (2018), 21st Century Challenges Facing Cultural Landscapes. Routledge

Steiner, F. et al. (2016), Nature and Cities. Institute of Land Policy

Watkins, J. (2007), The Management and Maintenance of Historic Parks, Gardens and Landscapes: The English Heritage Handbook. Frances Lincoln

Yarham, R. (2010). How to read the landscape: a crash course in interpreting the great outdoors. London and New York: Bloomsbury. 2017.