Understanding landscape change in a former brownfield site

Change as an opportunity - Collaborative research in a fluctuating global landscape

Dear Editor, We note with great enthusiasm the advancesto the medical field that have been broughtabout by international collaboration betweenmedical researchers in different countries.Collaboration occurs when “2 or more entitieswork together to produce a desired and sharedoutcome” (1). Literature on the topic notesspecifically the strategic alignment of globalpartnerships with global health p...

Architecture Students’ Understanding of Landscape Issues in Design Studios (A Comparison Approach in Some Tehran Architecture Schools)

Without the surrounding environment of a site, architecture loses its full meaning. In the evolutionof the design process, a site's environment should be understood as the integral factor within which a designed productor artifact is expected to perform. The environment is not of secondary priority. Every building is intertwined with itscontext; context being its physical, visual and ecological...

Understanding Patchy Landscape Dynamics: Towards a Landscape Language

Patchy landscapes driven by human decisions and/or natural forces are still a challenge to be understood and modelled. No attempt has been made up to now to describe them by a coherent framework and to formalize landscape changing rules. Overcoming this lacuna was our first objective here, and this was largely based on the notion of Rewriting Systems, also called Formal Grammars. We used compli...

Understanding the landscape

At a meeting such as this, one is tempted to compare our present struggles to understand string theory, and to find clearer evidence for or against the claim that it describes our universe, with the deep issues discussed at past Solvay conferences. Now my experience has been that when visiting Belgium, giving in to temptation is generally a good thing to do, so with no further apology let us pr...

Models of landscape change?