Defining Landscape Democracy: A Path to Spatial Justice

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This stimulating book explores the intersection of landscape, democracy and spatial justice on an international scale to offer an overarching definition and examination of the emerging field of landscape democracy. The concept of landscape in academia, policy and practice is being met with growing interest and a wider understanding that it is a complex living environment, moulded by tangible and intangible mediums, processes and systems. This book examines how physical, mental, emotional, economic, social and cultural wellbeing depend in large part on inclusive planning and management of landscapes. Through a broad set of theoretical and conceptual frameworks and international case studies, the authors of Defining Landscape Democracy address critical questions, such as: Why is democracy relevant to landscape? How do we democratise landscape? How might we achieve landscape and spatial justice? This work will provide new knowledge and insights for researchers in the fields of landscape architecture, human geography, planning, public policy, sociology, landscape management, and designers and planners actively engaged in shaping democratic public spaces and communities. Dedication Contents List of contributors Foreword Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Section A: Framing the discourse 1 Democratic theories and potential for influence for civil society in spatial planning processes • Lillin Knudtzon 2 Landscape democracy: more than public participation? • Michael Jones 3 Landscape architecture and the discourse of democracy in the Arab Middle East • Jala Makhzoumi 4 Exploring the concept of ‘democratic landscape’ • Benedetta Castiglioni and Viviana Ferrario 5 Shatter-zone democracy? What rising sea levels portend for future governance • Charles Geisler 6 Making the case for landscape democracy: context and nuances • Shelley Egoz, Karsten Jørgensen and Deni Ruggeri Section B: Contextualising landscape democracy 7 Towards democratic professionalism in landscape architecture • Paula Horrigan and Mallika Bose 8 Landscape assessment as conflict and consensus • Andrew Butler 9 Invisible and visible lines: landscape democracy and landscape practice • Richard Alomar 10 Enacting landscape democracy: assembling public open space and asserting the right to the city • Joern Langhorst 11 Public space and social ideals: revisiting Vienna’s Donaupark • Lilli Lička, Ulrike Krippner and Nicole Theresa King 12 Storytelling as a catalyst for democratic landscape change in a Modernist utopia • Deni Ruggeri 13 Democracy and trespass: political dimensions of landscape access • Tim Waterman 14 Rural landscape governance and expertise: on landscape agents and democracy • Jørgen Primdahl, Lone Søderkvist Kristensen, Finn Arler, Per Angelstam, Andreas Aagaard Christensen and Marine Elbakidze 15 Managing cherished landscapes across legal boundaries • Morten Clemetsen and Knut Bjørn Stokke 16 Landscape as the spatial materialisation of democracy in Marinaleda, Spain • Emma López-Bahut and Luz Paz-Agras 17 Planning the cultural and social reactivation of urban open spaces in Greek metropoles of crisis • Eleni Oureilidou 18 Landscape democracy in the upgrading of informal settlements in Medellín, Colombia • Eva Schwab 19 Learning from Occupy Gezi Park: redefining landscape democracy in an age of ‘planetary urbanism’ • Burcu Yiğit-Turan 20 Democracy and the communicative dimension of public art • Beata Sirowy List of reviewers Index