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BOOKS AND ARTICLES

Theory in Landscape Architecture 

“The Art of Site Planning” (Kevin Lynch and Gary Hack) 1984

8 Stages of Site Planning

Defining the problem 

Programming and the analysis of the site and user

Schematic Design and Detailed Costing

Developed Design and the Preliminary cost estimate 

Contract Documents 

Bidding and Contracting 

Construction 

Occupation and Management 

“Our physical setting determines the quality of our lives” 

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“An ecological method (1974) Ian McHarg 

Ecology Offers emancipation to landscape architecture 

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“Community Design” 1974 Randolph Hester Jr.

Policies to make design profession more responsible for social sustainability of the neighbourhood environments 

To clarify to whom the designer is responsible 

To guarantee the input of users values 

To eliminate proffesional ethics 

To provide for socially suitable neighbourhood environments 

To guarantee increased users involvement throughout the neighbourhood

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Operative Landscapes: Building Communities through public space 

Alissa North 

2013 

_Contemporary landscape architecture

_Operative landscapes exhibit concepts regarding self organisation emergence, ecology, systems, performance and function. This specific approach tends no to focus on future uncertainties to be adapted within a space over time…

_James Corner, put forward that landscape as an agent of change without end. “A cumulative directionality toward further becoming”; a constant process of unfolding rather than a rigid reality. Michael Desvigne interprets this notion as an indeterminate nature, a “Long time frame of landscapes and cities and especially “the play with time: the different stages of development that concentrate the condense, in short a short period. Processes with historical rhythms. 

_Communities rely on their surrounding resources for their functions.. Resources such as in the form of intact ecologies of forests, bogs, rivers and grasslands and through cultivation transformed into reserves, channels, acreage and plots. 

_Public spaces such as parks, community gardens, plaza or a street scape, the public where people interact provide a shared sense of ownership and the qualities of these spaces impacts the community on how they operate and evolve.. 

_Public spaces are the main core of creating and directing a successful community development… making use of a landscape framework to support an operative landscape….

_Public open spaces are continuously evolving with their communities… they can be considered as a dynamic rather than static and prescriptive

_A well designed open space tends to Forster strong community pride and involvement..

_What are remediation strategies for landscape?  

_Understand the communities impact throughout the design phases of a project… it can lend an insight on the effects of community input, development and sustained involvement and therefore it can guide the design of public spaces as intentional catalyst for community building….

JENFELDER AU, HAMBEG, GERMANY

_The community has been developed on a site and it was formerly occupied by military Baracks…

_The  design crated a typological references to the sites history to develop a strong image for this east Hamburg neighbourhood… currently considers charaterless but also includes technical design features such as rainwater harvesting, biomass energy production by useing sanitary waste and solar energy collection….

CRISTAL PARK, BIEL, SWI TZERLAND

_It was used as a waste disposal site, Prohibiting built structure, the site was then developed into a community park…

NEW FARM, BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA, 

_The riverfront community of New Farm provides a rich contextual narrative for a site that has experiences morphological and cultural transformations.

_New Farm’s name traces back to the portion of these sites peninsula that was once a farming settlement in the late 1800’s

_New Farms adaptive master plan, interprets the spatial and historical processes of socio economic change, the physical realities of the site, as well as its heritage quality informed by the sites previous industrial nature..

_New Farms regeneration to outline the preservation of the community’s historic housing stock, by providing guidelines that prescribe the creation of a heritage park system with reference to some fo the legacy features of the site.

DOCKSIDE GREEN, VICTORIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA

_Dockside Green is an adaptive reuse of an industrial site that required brownfield remediation inured to make the site an appropriate contact for urban development.

_The project blends the best of the arbors old industrial fabric with innovate practices in landscape technology

*Landscape Architecture and Digital Technologies

Green-roofs assist in providing some of this habitat, collecting and recycling rainwater, insulating the interior membrane of the buildings and connecting the upper units to planted areas. 

Remediating a Sense of Place

Memory and Environmental Justice in Anniston, Alabama 

Melanie Barron 

University of Tennessee - Knoxville 

_”The Material Landscape itself, as it is produces by the black subject and mapped as unimaginably black, must be rewritten into black, and arguably human, existence on different terms…. Invisible geographies, marginality, indicate a struggle and ways of knowing the world, which can also illustrate wider conceptual and material spaces for consideration; real, lived dispossessions and reclamations, for example. The margins and invisibility, then are also lived and right in the middle of our historically present landscape.” Katherine McKitrrick, Demonic Grounds - pp. 5-7 

RECYCLING SPACES Curation Urban Evolution:

The Landscape Design Of MARTHA SCHWARTZ PARTNERS 

GRAND CANAL SQAURE Dublin — Case Study 

_Recuperation as a contemporary landscape architecture in response to the slow violence of economic restructuring globally

_Post Industrial Cities 

_Since the late 17th Century, the dublin docklands area has transformed from river estuary, to agricultural fields, to industrial port, to gas works, to toxic brownfield, to vibrant urban neighbourhood. Grand Canal Square, the centrepiece of the new development, has played a catalytic role in the most recent reshaping of this once forgotten part of town..

_Dublin is a city of change. More than 1000 years the city has been ruled by the norse and normans the British and the Irish, it has ben an agricultural city, a shipping city, a manufacturing city, a service city and a technology city. As the economy shifts, Dublin shifts..

_The most recent wave of movement to Dublin came during the Celtic tiger boom of the mid 1990’s, when Ireland transitioned from being one of the poorest in western Europe to having one of the fastest growing economies on the continent…

_In order to transform the site and its toxicity that got left behind, from being derelict industrial site to a vibrant mixed used development, the DDDA (The Dublin Docklands Development Authority) combined an innovative relaxation strategy and public realm design…

_”If you want to make it something that people are drawn to, you need to imprint it in peoples imaginations, in a way that is fun, that is lively. It had to have an identity in and of itself and had to be of cultural and artistic value.” - John McLaughlin

_The docklands are has historically been important of Dublin, but it was a really tough place to live, Now 80,000 people living and nearly 30,000 jobs. Facebooks agency is near and google just opened up their European headquarters. Businesses are growing and there’s a young and energetic population…

BEAUTY REDEEMED: Recycling post industrial Landscapes 

Ellen Braae 

“INTERVENTIONS”

Learning from Landschaftspark Duisburg - Nord

_German Landscape Architect Peter Latz - Latz + Partners 

_The transformation of former industrial areas for new purposes is a widespread phenomenon happening before our eyes.. 

_ “A space is thereby established in which the past, present and future can be seen together in mutual dialogue”

_The reuse of ruin ions industrial areas inscribes it self cultural in a wider artistic re-orientation and re-interprests on what we already have, contributing towards thinking behind sustainability. 

_The Industrial areas can be seen as potential new cultural heritage, where preservation, re use and transformation becomes allies

_Transformation of industrial areas is ushering in an epistemological breakthrough in design… there’s a lot of things to be learned from transformed industrial areas 

_The innovation in Latz proposal lay in decoding of features and qualities and the way they were highlighted and reworked. He saw structures in the area which could form settings and provide inspiration for new uses…

_Relics of Industrialism and The Process of nature

_Latz also developed a strategy for cultural re-use which no only re-incorporated the materials on the site but also incorporated entire structures such as the massive blast furnace which today houses an auditorium

_Latz intervention-based transformations with its desire to re use the decommissioned industrial areas in various ways, includes several aspect of sustainability.

_Sustainability in relations to the questions of future ruin ions industrial areas also involve cultural dimensions. There is cultural history hidden in these discrete areas, where the requirements of productions are intertwined with culturally determined values - but of far greater importance of how we can build a new future out if these ruins and derelict spaces 

_ “How can we work on the new aesthetics qualities, functions and materials, and the new frames of understanding in the industrial leavings, in a way that is meaning for us today and helps to draw the counters of tomorrow?” 

_ “German Historian Koselleck said each era is formed by its expectations of the future and if we are unable to take a creative approach to an absolutely crucial central element of our recent past and the present we live in, then in that respect there is little hope for our future. We must then develop our aesthetic views of these ruins if we are build a future from them and on top of them. This is where we find the new sustainability”

_ “Industrial areas can be regarded as a new form of cultural heritage, to be investigated and creatively treated” 

FROM INDUSTRIAL TO POST INDUSTRIAL UBRAN LANDSCAPE 

Industrial Landscapes as an element of post-industrial urbanisation 

_Post Industrial urban landscapes, ruinous industrial landscapes are simply part of are not planned, unified entities, they are accumulations of a series of decision taken over time, each rational in its own right, which led to the current stage of urbanisation. 

_Overlaid like a palimpsest on largely obliterated earlier uses of the land…

_ “In between landscapes” can be criticised as lacking both identity and aesthetic quality

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Zejel Poems ====|===== The zejel is a very old Spanish poetic form that is also likely an even older Arabic poetic form with an origination date somewhere between the ninth and eleventh centuries. In fact, Edward Hirsch believes the form was probably invented by Mucaddam ben Muafa, a ninth century Hispano-Muslim poet. Here are the basic rules for zejel: • First stanza is a tercet (3-line stanza) with an aaa rhyme scheme • All other stanzas are quatrains (4-line stanzas) with a xxxa rhyme scheme, i.e.: bbba | ccca | ddda, and so on to the end; • Lines are usually 8 syllables long Alternate version: The version above is from Robin Skelton, but Hirsch offers an alternate version that begins with a couplet rhymed Aa (or aA), followed by the bbbA, cccA, etc., making the repeating A line a refrain from the opening couplet that could be shorter than the other lines (sort of like in a rondeau). ====\==== (from Robert Lee Brewer's blog, Poetic Asides – writersdigest.com/editor-blogs/poetic-asides)