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Ph.D. Candidate in Architecture / NAZAR research center
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Professor / University of Tehran
Abstract
Growing urban environments, as a context of complex social, economical, political and cultural relations, require a wide and complex range of approaches, perspectives and solutions to meet today's conditions and consequences of the continuing development process. New ideas on planning and design of cities are required. Confronting these challenges, landscape ecology provides many solutions regarding its definition. On the other hand, urban ecology as a successor of ecology, offers valuable principals for urban development and environmental awareness. According to increasing urbanization, landscape ecology should be more urbanized in future. Therefore, today a new concept of "urban landscape ecology" emerges with yet no single definition. This article first defines the concepts of ecological paradigm and their impact on its alteration in relation to urban landscape. Thereinafter, modified concepts of "urban landscape ecology" and "landscape-oriented ecologic urbanism" are offered.
The friction between the definitions of landscape, city and ecology is what empowers urban landscape ecology as a base for planning and design. Such a definition makes landscape architects draw their professional concentration from the suburbs to the city where human systems are to be considered as a part of ecology. Landscape-oriented urbanism suggests three research paths: the evolution of aesthetic perception; a deeper understanding of the role of human in ecology; and learning in action.
“Landscape-oriented urbanism” considers the application of processes that facilitate design in naturally and culturally complex and dynamic systems. Therefore, landscape-oriented urbanism is necessarily beyond a new urbanism; since it is faced with problems beyond the urban form and focuses on more complex issues.
Dabiri, M., & Masnavi, M. R. (2015). From Urban Development to Landscape-oriented Ecological Urbanism. MANZAR, the Scientific Journal of landscape, 7(32), 66-73.
MLA
Maryam Dabiri; Mohammad Reza Masnavi. "From Urban Development to Landscape-oriented Ecological Urbanism". MANZAR, the Scientific Journal of landscape, 7, 32, 2015, 66-73.
HARVARD
Dabiri, M., Masnavi, M. R. (2015). 'From Urban Development to Landscape-oriented Ecological Urbanism', MANZAR, the Scientific Journal of landscape, 7(32), pp. 66-73.
VANCOUVER
Dabiri, M., Masnavi, M. R. From Urban Development to Landscape-oriented Ecological Urbanism. MANZAR, the Scientific Journal of landscape, 2015; 7(32): 66-73.
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