2015

The cities and landscapes of the future must be increasingly resilient and adaptable to changing environmental influences. Ideally, they will modify and optimise their physical appearance to meet these challenges. Building and developing cities thus requires more and more knowledge of ecological interrelationships, dynamic systems and long-term development. The know-how that landscape architects have is especially important here, as there is no other profession that can so effectively combine this knowledge with design. Topos 90 discusses approaches to designing resilience and presents examples of work in countries such as the Netherlands, China, The United States and Columbia.