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Part I: Introduction – Research / Method / Transdisciplinarity – METABOLISM -- Pluri, Inter and Transdisciplinarity Methods in Researching the Landscape Metabolism -- Part II:  Archetypal landscape – Philosophy / Epistemology / Semiotics – SPECIFICITY -- Living the space from Ţara Haţegului - Building places and landscape as collective identity and memory -- Decoding Agricultural Landscape -- Part III Cultural landscape – Image / Photo / Space and Time – MEMORY -- Inventing Scotland: Photography, Landscape and National Identity -- Photography as exercise of memory in order to re-asses, re-compose and revive landscapes -- Part IV Ecological landscape – Cartography / Assessments / Geography – DYNAMICS -- Forest landscape history using diachronic cartography and GIS. Case study: Subcarpathian Prahova Valley, Romania -- GIS-based methodology for the analysis of regional landscapes and their changes based on land cover and use: a planning perspective aimed at conserving the natural heritage -- Part V Transition landscape – Periphery / Consumption / Decision – REAPPRAISAL -- Urban Culture, Urban Cultural Landscape -- The landscape of the urban peripheries- an alternative therapy -- Part VI Urban garden – Art / History / Landscape Architecture – BECOMING -- Viennese Modernism and Landscape Architecture -- Green walls -- Part VII Urban landscape – Revitalisation / Itinerary / Perception – ROUTE -- Spatial street network and urban traces around the Modernist boulevard in Bucharest -- Landscape rehabilitation through policies and urban interventions for reshaping mobility -- Part VIII Public space – Exercise / Project / Intervention – PARTICIPATION -- Living landscapes -- Reconditioning the urban texture through public interventions -- Media landscape -- Part IX Conclusion – Territory / Detail / Resilience –SUSTAINABILITY -- Part IX Conclusion – Territory / Detail / Resilience –SUSTAINABILITY -- Planning and designing sustainable and resilient landscapes – Conclusions and recommendations for further work.

This book deals with planning issues in landscape architecture, which start at the evaluation of the existing fabric of society, its history and memory, approached and conserved through photography, film and scenographic installations, a way in which the archetypes can be investigated, be it industrial derelict sites or already green spaces and cultural landscapes. It provides approaches to intervention, through rehabilitation and upgrade, eventually in participative manner. To such evaluation and promotion a couple of disciplines can contribute, such as history of art, geography and communication science, and of course (landscape) architecture. The field of landscape architecture reunites points of view from such different disciplines with a view to an active approach, a contemporary intervention or conservation. The book presents case studies from several European countries (Romania, Germany, Austria, Italy, Portugal), mostly for large landscape in the outskirts of the cities and in the parks.