Journal: Landscape Research

Abbreviation

Landsc. Res.

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Taylor & Francis

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0142-6397
1469-9710

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2021 - 20257
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Publications 1 - 7 of 7
  • Assembling, governing, enmeshing (AGE): a land(scape)-oriented methodology for mass housing estates
    Item type: Journal Article
    Hueppe, Robin V. (2025)
    Landscape Research
    Berlin's mass housing estates are characterised by their expansive and lush landscapes. However, they have been primarily revisited by recent architectural historiography, focusing on their architectonic and sociopolitical significance. This research addresses this oversight and the gap between architectural and landscape research by developing a land(scape)-oriented methodology. It examines the dynamic interplay between these estates and land transformations across various scales and time periods. Through case studies in former East and West Berlin, the study identifies limitations in current scholarship and explores innovative avenues within the political ecologies of land. It proposes hypotheses on the agency of land in shaping these projects, institutional control, and land as a medium for resistance. By developing sets of research methods to study the relational production of landscapes, this research aims to illuminate the past and future roles of these estates in addressing Berlin's territorial and socio-cultural challenges.
  • Welfare Landscapes between individuality and communality: social housing in Albertslund Syd
    Item type: Journal Article
    Keil, Lærke Sophie; Riesto, Svava; Avermaete, Tom (2021)
    Landscape Research
    This article proposes the concept ‘welfare landscape’ to better understand post-war social housing in the context of contemporary renewal projects. We study of the iconic 1960s housing estate Albertslund Syd near Copenhagen as a welfare landscape and ask how it relates to two core values associated with welfare: communality and individual well-being. Examining architectural plans and the ways that people have used, lived in and understood this landscape over time, we show that the welfare landscape is a dynamic and agonistic terrain in which different modes of individuality and communality are constantly(re)negotiated. Specific landscape elements are active agents in this negotiation. We conclude that Albertslund Syd’s renovation plan relies on a reductive reading of this dynamic landscape, and we call for a better understanding of the capacities of welfare landscapes to facilitate various modes of individuality and collectively over a long time span.
  • The politics of interdependence in community-led landscape restoration
    Item type: Journal Article
    Laxness, Stefan (2025)
    Landscape Research
    Despite the growth of geographies of landscape restoration in Europe, the extent to which it provides livelihoods for local communities remains unclear. This article argues that landscape restoration constitutes a strategy of livelihood when enacted by place-based communities. Using an ecological livelihood framework and ethnographic fieldwork, this article explores a case of community-led landscape restoration transitioning a landscape degraded by industrial forestry to an ecologically diverse and resilient one. By being attentive to relations of interdependence, it illuminates the micro-politics, everyday practices and more-than-human relations that sustain and shape the restoration process. It reveals landscape restoration as a pragmatic strategy to address environmental vulnerability, disrupt dominant land use and imaginaries, and sustain the more-than-economic life of the community. The article suggests that practicing landscape restoration from a minor position of power requires translocalising the transformation of place and enlisting more-than-humans in the life project of the community.
  • Against wastelanding: distributed design at the pace of soil in the Conca de Barberà
    Item type: Journal Article
    Harris, Luke Thomas (2025)
    Landscape Research
    This paper proposes a methodology for designers to work in the extensive yet marginal landscapes that are produced as part of the process of agricultural intensification. The distributed design approach, which focuses on enriching the existing bioinfrastructure of the soil, emerged out an ongoing research project in the Conca de Barberà, Spain. The project involves managing an interconnected series of currently unproductive on unmaintained fields through the rotational grazing of horses, with the hypothesis that the systematic grazing regime will catalyse soil biological activity. By attending to the soil infrastructure, the project necessarily developed a unique design approach. Management decisions became design problems and design work took on something of the call and response of management. Though it was shaped by the specific constraints and opportunities of the research project, the methodology is applicable to a wide variety of design projects in extensive landscapes with limited resources.
  • Romanticising regeneration: A reply to Nathan Atherton
    Item type: Other Journal Item
    Harris, Luke Thomas (2025)
    Landscape Research
  • Soils in motion: the metabolism of New York City’s urban grounds
    Item type: Journal Article
    Harris, Luke Thomas (2025)
    Landscape Research
    This article examines the socioecological metabolism of soils in New York City, tracing their production, circulation, and transformation within the dynamics of extended urbanisation. It explores how soil, as both a biophysical and socio-political entity, alternates between being treated as lively or inert in response to the demands of capital. The study explores three cases: a soil mixing facility in New Jersey, the regional extraction of sand, and the municipal Clean Soil Bank program. By integrating scholarship on urban metabolism and the metabolic rift, the article challenges reductionist and technocratic perspectives framing soil as a passive substrate, emphasising instead its dynamic role in urban life and agrarian urbanism. The findings reveal how soils, shaped by socioecological histories, resist simplistic binaries of life and nonlife, offering new possibilities for understanding the interplay between urbanisation, ecological relations, and political economy.
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