Centenary paper: Landscape planning – preservation, conservation and sustainable development

Abstract

Landscape planning has traditionally been concerned with an agenda of protection, amenity and ornament. This focus has been important, but has remained peripheral to mainstream spatial planning. Building on an influential but partial set of practices, the latter 20 th century saw landscape planning mature into a domain with coherent purposes and techniques. In the first part of the 21 st century, landscape planning has identified more strongly with the core concerns of spatial planning. Through innovations such as the European Landscape Convention, landscape has become increasingly central to matters of sustainability and place-making across both urban and rural realms.

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“…This provides the necessary basis for early engagement across disciplines, which underpins a successful green infrastructure planning process as illustrated in the Portmarnock South Local Area Plan. The process in Portmarnock also demonstrated the need for creativity when planning using a green infrastructure approach and the need to place green infrastructure thinking at the heart of the planning process rather than at the periphery (Selman, 2010). green infrastructure thinking also brings a new dimension to management and suggests that the involvement of multiple stakeholders in participatory management processes is important in achieving successful outcomes (Colding, 2013).…”

“…Framed in this way environment and landscape, including protected areas, represent a constraint to economic growth and development (Selman, 2010). Despite the development of tools such as the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) which seek to provide a high level of protection for the environment and thereby promote sustainability (Therivel, 2004), practice has largely focused on ameliorating the negative impacts of economic development on protected areas and other designated sites (e.g.…”

Measuring visual attributes for assessing visual conflicts in urban environments

“…Britain has always had some degree of anti-urbanism in town planning (Glass, 1972). Even though urban planning systems aim to achieve healthy, beautiful and pleasant cities, the long-term paradigm has been to refuse, limit or restrict development (Selman, 2010). According to Selman (2010), this paradigm was shaped to limit the effect of development on the green and pleasant qualities of natural landscapes.…”

“…It has become a leading branch of planning to assess the relationship between new developments and the existing environment. Landscape planning is considered as a key driver toward sustainable development (Selman, 2010). Therefore it is necessary…”

“…It involves less prevention and engages in the potential of landscapes to enhance place character and to accommodate sustainable change. (Selman, 2010).…”