LSC6113   Landscape Planning   (25 credits)

Description

An introduction to core methods, concepts and contexts for contemporary landscape architectural planning, and more advanced studies in strategic large scale design, following from LSC6111 and LSC6112. Through an integrated project: methods of landscape planning and strategic design approaches including research, survey, analytical and creative processes are applied, using relevant media, tools and sources. The project addresses an extended urban or peri-urban (often infrastructural) landscape such as river corridor, post-industrial district, urban forest or extensive park. Theory and methods are delivered through an intensive series of lectures, workshops and seminars addressing theory, ecology, society, ethics and culture and approaches to landscape planning and strategic design areaqpplied in the project.

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