Landscape Architecture & Planning

The course introduces addresses multi-scale landscape design and planning, including global approaches, principles, materials, and techniques as well as its role among various other urban disciplines.  Core issues include vegetation typologies and uses, designing with water, approaches to urban and regional relations such as green and blue infrastructure without overlooking human aspects such as preference, place-making and identity. It introduces an understanding of cities and their large-scale processes of production and consumption, environmental qualities and the identity of places, while focusing on the instruments of landscape architecture and design, landscape urbanism, spaces of nature, green and the environment, the appreciation of various forms of urban contexts, at various scales, and the localization and adaptation of global systems and solutions to local contexts under consideration of local identities.