{"title":"Madrid Metropolitan Forest and the water cycle","authors":"Margarita Jover","doi":"10.1080/18626033.2023.2258721","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18626033.2023.2258721","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractIn the context of global warming and increasing aridity in Spain, Madrid’s Strategic Planning Office is investing in 4,300 ha of forest to link the existing 27,700 ha of large parks. The 32,000-ha Metropolitan Forest aims to improve the quality of life in the city. It is divided into five zones. The 1,250- ha Zone Four project explores a design alternative to the area’s dominant hardscaped plaza and high-maintenance nineteenth-century park from the notion of the artificial pastoral. It magnifies the water cycle in three new and recovered historical aspects: increased floodable areas, a network of natural and artificial green-blue infrastructures, and an increased volume of used regenerated water and sludge to support a palette of forested landscapes. The project also contributes to slow mobility, civic nodes and connectivity infrastructures between the city and the Metropolitan Forest. Historically, compact Mediterranean cities like Madrid have had an aversion to trees. Fortunately, recent initiatives by the city are changing course, allowing both urban forestry and forest urbanism to flourish.Keywords: ForestsMadridgreenbeltwater infrastructurewater cycle Notes1 Retrieved from the Metropolitan Forest website: bosquemetropolitano.madrid.es.2 The Directorate General for Strategic Planning (Direccion General de Planificacion Estrategica, DGPE) has taken on the task of launching the Metropolitan Forested Green Belt project in 2020. The DGPE has organized five zones and launched an international competition. The results can be seen on the website estrategiaurbana.madrid.es/concurso-bosque-metropolitano/.3 The firm of aldayjover architecture and landscape is based in Barcelona and New Orleans, aldayjover.com.4 Geographical distribution of drylands, delimited based on the aridity index (AI). The classification of AI is: Humid AI ▸ 0.65, Dry sub-humid 0.50 ▸ AI ≤ 0.65, Semi-arid 0.20 ▸ AI ≤ 0.50, Arid 0.05 ▸ AI ≤ 0.20, Hyper-arid AI ▸ 0.05. See: John T. Abatzoglou et al., TerraClimate Precipitation and Potential Evapotranspiration (1980–2015) (2018), ipcc.ch/srccl/chapter/chapter-3/.5 Andrés Álvarez Flórez, Aquellos bulevares de Madrid: antecedentes, aparición y evolución de las grandes vías arboladas de Madrid (PhD thesis, 2022), oa.upm.es/70288/1/TFG_Enero22_Alvarez_Florez_Andres.pdf.6 The storm Filomena in January 2021 had a catastrophic effect on Madrid’s trees, see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_Filomena.7 Terrain vague is a French term used by Ignasi de Sola Morales to describe unproductive spaces and precious spaces of freedom. Ignasi de Solà-Morales Rubió, Presente y Futuros: Arquitectura en las ciudades (Barcelona: Collegi d’arquitectes de Catalunya/Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, 1996), 10-23.8 Gilles Clément, ‘The Planetary Garden’ and Other Writings, translated by Sandra Morris (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015).9 The forest inventory statistics on land and forest area are based on UN-FAO/ECE TBFRA2000","PeriodicalId":43606,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Landscape Architecture","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135799204","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Glacier blanketing: Two approaches in the European Alps","authors":"Carey Clouse","doi":"10.1080/18626033.2022.2195246","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18626033.2022.2195246","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract As a response to climate change, the use of glacier blanketing in the European Alps helps to slow the melting of snow and ice, and in turn, allays the impacts of global warming on recreational landscapes. The practice of laying geotextiles across glaciers and snow fields reveals important information about the capacity for human engagement and, ultimately, the role of design interventions in addressing the climate crisis. Blanketing efforts have been prominent in large-scale environmental art works and might be seen as acts of care for a broken planet. In this study, interviews with stakeholders and associated fieldwork underscored the significance of human values and agency in two adaptive management projects. The comparative study of an individual ski resort and an ice grotto demonstrate the ways in which glacier blanketing is used to slow the rate of ablation, the benefits and limitations of such interventions and the values that underpin this work. These decisions carry implications for design practice beyond the Alps, and make a case for foregrounding the role of human agency, values and decision making in global climate-adaptive design efforts.","PeriodicalId":43606,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Landscape Architecture","volume":"70 1","pages":"70 - 83"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79272499","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life on the Capitalist Ruins","authors":"Noël van Dooren","doi":"10.1080/18626033.2022.2195247","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18626033.2022.2195247","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43606,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Landscape Architecture","volume":"149 1","pages":"84 - 85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73368889","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Recovering aesthetics: Pictures, power and the Pyrocene","authors":"Emily Schlickman, Brett Milligan","doi":"10.1080/18626033.2022.2195226","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18626033.2022.2195226","url":null,"abstract":"Following a wildfire, certain species of fungi with heat-resistant spores in the soil rise to the surface, reveal their fruiting bodies and colonize the soil. These colourful fungi, with their extensive mycorrhizal networks, support nearby vegetation by collecting nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus","PeriodicalId":43606,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Landscape Architecture","volume":"78 1","pages":"20 - 31"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72715996","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ayşen Savaş, Funda Baş Bütüner, Sezin Sarıca, Nesli Naz Aksu
{"title":"Projecting the deep ground","authors":"Ayşen Savaş, Funda Baş Bütüner, Sezin Sarıca, Nesli Naz Aksu","doi":"10.1080/18626033.2022.2195224","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18626033.2022.2195224","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article reflects on surface-based urban strategies and explores the idea of deep ground. It aims to reveal the ground’s unacquainted thickness in order to discover the stratified context informed by local knowledge—historical, ecological, geological and hydrological. To clarify the argument, the article dwells on design projects conducted in our research-based design studio. Focusing on Bodrum, a Turkish coastal town challenged by rampant tourism, the studio developed analyses and design proposals for activating the town’s deep ground. Based on the studio projects, the research seeks out various ways of projecting the ground and frames three design acts that propose creative future urban strategies and scenarios: expanding the guidelines, thickening the ground and populating the liminal zones.","PeriodicalId":43606,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Landscape Architecture","volume":"1 1","pages":"6 - 19"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83072562","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"La préséance du vivant and Projet(s) terre(s)","authors":"Suzanne Katz","doi":"10.1080/18626033.2022.2195248","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18626033.2022.2195248","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43606,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Landscape Architecture","volume":"80 1","pages":"86 - 87"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75945933","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Terai trajectories: Layering design action in the plains of Nepal","authors":"Dane Carlson","doi":"10.1080/18626033.2022.2195230","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18626033.2022.2195230","url":null,"abstract":"Monsoon rains transform the hundreds of dry, meandering gravel chan-nels running through Nepal’s Terai plains into powerful flows of water and sediment. Following the mid-twentieth-century displacement of the Terai’s Indigenous peoples and transformations of forested plains into farmland, ef-forts to confine and control these flows multiplied.¹ Monsoon flood disaster has since become the norm across this landscape that has always flooded. The widespread building of embankments between settlements and water flows has become an almost singular response as institutions fail to respond beyond patchwork post-disaster relief. The plains are now crisscrossed by a growing network of chronically failing flood-control embankments: ‘There are two types of embankments: those that have breached and those that will.’² Breached embankments are either rebuilt in place or pushed towards flows to ‘protect’ more land from flooding. This cycle continues; the future becomes ‘thinkable only as extrapolation from what-is’.³ Two possible futures in Theliya, a small village separated by one","PeriodicalId":43606,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Landscape Architecture","volume":"66 1","pages":"46 - 57"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81097370","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Augmenting socioecological dynamics in urban leftover spaces: Landscape architectural design as a foundation","authors":"S. Luo, Saskia De Wit","doi":"10.1080/18626033.2022.2195227","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18626033.2022.2195227","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Leftover spaces are urban interstices that are open to spontaneous socioecological appropriation, complementary to defined and managed urban open spaces. The design intervention of leftover spaces poses a paradox: while repurposing leftover spaces to make them accessible, usable and meaningful, design simultaneously runs a risk of closing off opportunities for appropriation. This paper examines the role of landscape architecture design in transforming leftover spaces. Four analytical lenses: the morphological, material, ecological and social lenses, were developed to examine the Dalston Curve Garden. Two essential design lessons for engaging the interstitial condition of leftover spaces were concluded: to design with multiple site qualities and to nurture local stewardship. The study further highlights the role of spatio-physical design as ‘founding’: to establish the beginning of a place-bound transformation without fixing the endpoint and to allow a profound connection between people and place to emerge.","PeriodicalId":43606,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Landscape Architecture","volume":"27 1","pages":"32 - 45"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87172838","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Landscape architecture criticism in the Anthropocene","authors":"Burcu Yiğit-Turan, M. Hellström-Reimer, Sonia Keravel, Anaïs Leger-Smith, Francisca Lima, Usue Ruiz Arana, Ursula Wieser Benedetti","doi":"10.1080/18626033.2022.2195222","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18626033.2022.2195222","url":null,"abstract":"The term ‘Anthropocene’ was coined by environmentalists to describe the current era, a period in the Earth’s geological history marked by human activities with far-reaching and irreversible effects on the planet’s climate systems.1 They say that these human activities represent an independent ‘planetary geological force’, or rather that they are the dominant force behind the rapid changes in the Earth’s systems.2","PeriodicalId":43606,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Landscape Architecture","volume":"34 1","pages":"4 - 5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75066092","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}