Urban landscape

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Urban landscape is a relatively young but widespread technical term for various space-describing and space-planning disciplines, such as geography, spatial sociology, urban planning, architecture and landscape architecture. The term summarizes various phenomena previously described under the terms suburban area, intermediate city , urban landscape , urban region, sprawl, periphery, bacon belt, urbanization, etc. in a general spatial category (mostly in the plural: urban landscapes).

On the one hand, it analytically describes the complete urbanization of the area (i.e. the general expansion of urban building forms, infrastructures and lifestyles), on the other hand, it also describes programmatic attempts to identify and shape new contexts in fragmented spaces that are no longer urban or rural.

historical development

Henri Lefèbvre provided the first foundations for understanding urban landscapes in the 1970s: “Urbanization (the urbanized space, the urban landscape) is not visible. We don't see them yet. Is that simply because our eyes are shaped (or deformed) by the previous landscape and are unable to recognize new space? ”(Lefèbvre 1972). In the German-speaking area, research intensified in the course of the debate about Thomas Sievert's Zwischenstadt and the Ladenburg college of the same name “for the qualification of the urbanized landscape”. The scientific debate is currently shaped by the dispute between urban planning schools as to whether urban landscapes are non-characteristic (generic) spaces or ubiquitous, but also specifically describable landscapes. Urban landscape was also the subject of the official German contribution to the 9th Venice Architecture Biennale in 2004.

education and study

In Germany, various university courses and research institutions deal with urban landscapes. At the Technical University of Munich , the Faculty of Architecture offers two courses that focus on urban landscapes: the consecutive Master's degree in Architectural Urban Studies for the Bachelor of Architecture and the interdisciplinary Master of Urban Studies - Landscape and City for Bachelor degrees in various spatial sciences such as architecture , Landscape architecture, geography, spatial planning, urban sociology etc. a. These courses prepare for entry in the city planning lists of the Chamber of Architects or for a subsequent doctorate. The TU Delft also offers a PhD program in Urban landscape architecture .

See also

literature

  • Henri Lefèbvre: The Revolution of the Cities. Reprint from 1972, 2003. ISBN 978-3933557599 .
  • Rem Koolhaas: The Unqualified City. In: ders., Bruce Mau: S, M, L, XL. The Monacelli Press, 1997. ISBN 978-1885254863 .
  • Roger Diener, Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron, Marcel Meili , Christian Schmid: Switzerland. An urban portrait. 3rd volumes. Birkhäuser Architektur, 1st edition March 2007. ISBN 978-3764372828 .
  • Sophie Wolfrum, Winfried Nerdinger and Susanne Schaubeck (eds.): Multiple City. Stadtkonzepte 1908/2008. ISBN 978-3868590012 , pp. 14-18.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. The unqualified city. by Rem Koolhaas
  2. ↑ cf. Switzerland - an urban portrait. Studio Basel at ETH Zurich by architects Herzog & de Meuron
  3. ↑ - Epicentres of the periphery
  4. ^ The Berlage Post-master in Architecture and Urban Design. In: TU Delft. Retrieved October 26, 2019 .