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Generative landscapes. From control to the wild through resilient design

No. 25 (2023-03-15)
  • Miriam García García
https://doi.org/10.18389/dearq.25.2019.11

Abstract

Urban planning and design have undergone a serious transformation since the 1960s together with a rethinking of the concept of landscape, which is governed by the logic of complex adaptive systems. Practical application has been possible through competitions to design big public parks. These huge spaces have firstly included pragmatic processes and secondly ecological processes as a method of dynamic adaptation. One is a design evolution based on controlling form and function, and the other favors the wild, which can be understood as adaptive regeneration.

Keywords: adaptation, ecology, design, landscape, process, resilience, wild

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