Making Sustainable Regional Design Strategies Successful
- Submitting institution
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Birmingham City University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 32Z_OP_D1003
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.3390/su11041024
- Title of journal
- Sustainability
- Article number
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- First page
- 1024
- Volume
- 11
- Issue
- 4
- ISSN
- 2071-1050
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/11/4
- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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2
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- Design plays a major role in the delivery of environmental visions for our cities, and governance has an impact on sustainable spatial strategies. This article demonstrates how best practices for environmental vision are established and implemented in order to future proof our cities. The research is based on case-studies of those European cities that have achieved a systemic change by influencing policy and replacing common practice with new processes and ways of thinking.
The identification and creation of sustainable strategic landscape-led models have a positive effect on how regions are conceptualized. Understanding that a holistic project framework is essential to the successful delivery of the concept for a spatial scheme is significant. This article provides new insights into the impact a holistic project framework may have on regional landscape planning and climate emergency, and the role that design plays in how this vision can be implemented and communicated. Through investigating the operations and processes applied by the European case-studies, the work demonstrates the key steps in which fragile concepts such as climate change and quality of space are able to transition from the conceptual stage of a scheme to its implementation phase.
The research applies a methodological framework for the identification, dissemination, and implementation of sustainable landscape design. Through a series of internships, field visits, interviews and observations, the researcher identified those strategic landscape-led models which facilitate the integration of environmental elements in design and which are crucial to sustainable cities.
The current article emerged from the researcher’s doctoral thesis and also builds upon their article ‘Climate Emergency Adaptation and Sustainable Management Strategies in Rural and Agricultural Landscape’ (Acta Horticulturae, 2017).
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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