Landscapes without landscape architects. The ecological beauty of informal urban landscapes
Regarding the maintenance of urban green infrastructure, most stakeholders prefer achieving an oversimplified aesthetic archetype of cleanliness and order at the cost of high maintenance, whilst landscape architects try to reproduce islands of near-natural vegetation even where the environmental fa...
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Regarding the maintenance of urban green infrastructure, most stakeholders prefer achieving an oversimplified aesthetic archetype of cleanliness and order at the cost of high maintenance, whilst landscape architects try to reproduce islands of near-natural vegetation even where the environmental factors typical of urban areas do not allow it. In the long term, the struggle between these two opposite ways of conceiving the look and the role of green infrastructure appears pointless: in the end, what decides the identity of most urban green infrastructure is the ‘vegetation by use’, that is, the daily people’s use of these spaces (whether accessible). By analysing the aesthetic value, the species composition, and the ecological meaning of the vegetation of some roadside habitats close to the city of Catania (Sicily), the Authors shed light on the possibility of enjoying low-cost, biodiverse and beautiful seasonally green areas.
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Received: 30/04/2023; Revised: 07/05/2023; ; Accepted: 08/05/2023
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| spelling | doaj-art-8ab68d5daf9d4c3fb8af13bea995e6732025-02-02T17:36:03ZengLetteraVentidue SrlAgathón2464-93092532-683X2023-06-011310.19229/2464-9309/1342023Landscapes without landscape architects. The ecological beauty of informal urban landscapesChiara Catalano0Thomas E. Hauck1Susann Ahn2Salvatore Pasta3Zurich University of Applied Sciences (Switzerland)TU Wien (Austria)TU Wien (Austria)CNR-IBBR, Unit of Palermo (Italy) Regarding the maintenance of urban green infrastructure, most stakeholders prefer achieving an oversimplified aesthetic archetype of cleanliness and order at the cost of high maintenance, whilst landscape architects try to reproduce islands of near-natural vegetation even where the environmental factors typical of urban areas do not allow it. In the long term, the struggle between these two opposite ways of conceiving the look and the role of green infrastructure appears pointless: in the end, what decides the identity of most urban green infrastructure is the ‘vegetation by use’, that is, the daily people’s use of these spaces (whether accessible). By analysing the aesthetic value, the species composition, and the ecological meaning of the vegetation of some roadside habitats close to the city of Catania (Sicily), the Authors shed light on the possibility of enjoying low-cost, biodiverse and beautiful seasonally green areas. Article info Received: 30/04/2023; Revised: 07/05/2023; ; Accepted: 08/05/2023 http://agathon.it/agathon/article/view/345green infrastructurenature-based solutionsspontaneous vegetationtrace readingurban microhabitats |
| spellingShingle | Chiara Catalano Thomas E. Hauck Susann Ahn Salvatore Pasta Landscapes without landscape architects. The ecological beauty of informal urban landscapes Agathón green infrastructure nature-based solutions spontaneous vegetation trace reading urban microhabitats |
| title | Landscapes without landscape architects. The ecological beauty of informal urban landscapes |
| title_full | Landscapes without landscape architects. The ecological beauty of informal urban landscapes |
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| title_short | Landscapes without landscape architects. The ecological beauty of informal urban landscapes |
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| topic | green infrastructure nature-based solutions spontaneous vegetation trace reading urban microhabitats |
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