Planning and Designing Sustainable and Resilient Landscapes

Cerasella Craciun is PhD, Associate Professor Architect, Vice-Dean of the Urban Planning Faculty, Head of the study direction "Landscape architecture" at the "Ion Mincu" University of Architecture and Urbanism (both masters and undergraduate).

Maria Bostenaru-Dan is PhD, research scientist at the "Ion Mincu" University of Architecture and Urbanism. She came back to her home country of Romania after spending more than a decade abroad, in Karlsruhe, Germany, where she graduated and in Pavia, Italy.

Part I: Introduction - Research / Method / Transdisciplinarity - METABOLISM.- Pluri, Inter and Transdisciplinarity Methods in Researching the Landscape Metabolism.- Part II: Archetypal landscape - Philosophy / Epistemology / Semiotics - SPECIFICITY.- Living the space from Tara Hategului - Building places and landscape as collective identity and memory.- Decoding Agricultural Landscape.- Part III Cultural landscape - Image / Photo / Space and Time - MEMORY.- Inventing Scotland: Photography, Landscape and National Identity.- Photography as exercise of memory in order to re-asses, re-compose and revive landscapes.- Part IV Ecological landscape - Cartography / Assessments / Geography - DYNAMICS.- Forest landscape history using diachronic cartography and GIS. Case study: Subcarpathian Prahova Valley, Romania.- GIS-based methodology for the analysis of regional landscapes and their changes based on land cover and use: a planning perspective aimed at conserving the natural heritage.- Part V Transition landscape - Periphery / Consumption / Decision - REAPPRAISAL.- Urban Culture, Urban Cultural Landscape.- The landscape of the urban peripheries- an alternative therapy.- Part VI Urban garden - Art / History / Landscape Architecture - BECOMING.- Viennese Modernism and Landscape Architecture.- Green walls.- Part VII Urban landscape - Revitalisation / Itinerary / Perception - ROUTE.- Spatial street network and urban traces around the Modernist boulevard in Bucharest.- Landscape rehabilitation through policies and urban interventions for reshaping mobility.- Part VIII Public space - Exercise / Project / Intervention - PARTICIPATION.- Living landscapes.- Reconditioning the urban texture through public interventions.- Media landscape.- Part IX Conclusion - Territory / Detail / Resilience -SUSTAINABILITY.- Part IX Conclusion - Territory / Detail / Resilience-SUSTAINABILITY.- Planning and designing sustainable and resilient landscapes - Conclusions and recommendations for further work.