Challenges for Landscape Architecture: Designed Urban Ecosystems and Social Acceptance

The creation of new ecosystems within urban contexts has undeniable benefits for city dwellers in terms increased biodiversity and related provisioning ecosystem services. However, designing areas with a high population density or which are subject to intensive use may also generate negative impacts on the anthropic dimension cause social conflicts that, turn, can undermine project’s effectiveness. This article focuses quite unexplored issue “costs” that generate, design management challenges they open up acceptance. Landscape architecture, as synthesis ecological, aesthetic, ethical aspects, seems be most appropriate framework adopting holistic approach ecosystems. analyzes three Italian landscape architecture projects. All projects adopted spatial measures oriented at fostering perception, understanding, acceptance recreated ecosystems, while preserving them from impacts. these efforts sometimes jeopardized by lack concomitant operational measures, such stakeholder involvement site maintenance. Co-existence delicate habitats functions is thus not utopic but asks effectively integrate ecological sciences, management, well social-oriented practices.