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- Ecosystems and Sustainable Metabolisms
School of Arts, Design and Architecture | A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä(2015) Galan, Juanjo; Peiro, Gemma; Fernandez, AlfonsoThe Strategic Plan for the Calderona Mountain Range (Valencia, Spain) covers an area of 200 km2 including 5 municipalities located at the northern edge of the Valencia’s Metropolitan Area. The Plan deals with a wide diversity of aspects, being ecology and sustainable development their common denominators. Thus, the analysis of the different territorial layers (forestry, agriculture, natural environment, urban planning, landscape, heritage, tourism & public use, mobility & infrastructures, and economic activity) was developed from an ecological and sustainability focused point of view which is afterwards extended in the definition of regional strategies and in a set of ten thematic plans and eighteen pilot projects. In particular, sustainability, the structural role of ecology and the effective enhancement of the different existing and potential ecosystems, permeate the whole Strategic Plan but are in particular the central elements of the Territorial and Landscape Plan, which includes the definition of a regional and local Green Infrastructure; of the Natural Environment Plan, which identifies the existing and potential plant communities and establishes the conditions for their adequate improvement and maintenance, and, finally, the Sustainable Development Plan, that analyzes the present flows of energy and resources and explores the territorial and urban models which would permit the reinforcement of internal metabolisms and the reduction of ecological footprints. - Helsinki metropolitan area green infrastructure plan 2050
School of Arts, Design and Architecture | Master's thesis(2018) Holmila, LeenaThe thesis studies the ‘green infrastructure’ of the Helsinki Metropolitan Area. Green infrastructure refers to the strategically planned network of green and blue structure. The aim of the thesis is to present principles for a common Green Infrastructure Plan of Helsinki Metropolitan Area that would be more precise than the Regional Land Use Plan for Helsinki-Uusimaa but more general than the individual masterplans of the cities. In this thesis, the existing green infrastructure of Helsinki Metropolitan Area and its quality is assessed by following criteria: 1) ecosystem services supply, i.e. benefits of nature to people, 2) biodiversity and 3) green structure connectivity, i.e. how well larger green areas are connected to each other. In addition, the future green infrastructure quality is affected by ecosystem services demand i.e. where the people are located compared to ecosystem services supply, and by future challenges like climate change and planned land use changes. Existing location-based data was used as a key assessment material, and it was reclassified according to the need based on the criteria defined in the thesis. In the thesis, the core of the Helsinki Metropolitan Area green infrastructure consists of both green areas that belong to the best 20% based on ecosystem services supply and / or biodiversity and green connections connecting the areas to each other. By comparing the defined top 20% green infrastructure to the Helsinki Metropolitan Area planned land use, it was discovered that while the masterplans of the cities mainly recognise the top 20% Helsinki Metropolitan Area green infrastructure, some conflicts also emerge. In this thesis, the main discovered challenges of the Helsinki Metropolitan Area green infrastructure are the presently poor green quality within built-up areas, connectivity together with future planned large land-use changes, densification along green fingers / areas, increasing ES demand i.e. pressure on the green, increasing rainfall and the rise of sea level caused by climate change. As a conclusion, the thesis proposes a common green infrastructure plan for the Helsinki Metropolitan Area. Possible elaborating strategies are also discussed. Green infrastructure is in the key position both in cities’ adaptation to climate change and in securing resilience, i.e. ability to act under changing conditions. Mainstreaming the concepts of green infrastructure, ecosystem services and biodiversity might help in fitting land use development interests together with GI challenges in a sustainable way. The green infrastructure of the Helsinki Metropolitan Area should be understood as a whole, and it should be planned in cooperation with the cities, developers and citizens, regardless of the administrative boundaries. - Landscape adaptation to climate change: Local networks, social learning and co-creation processes for adaptive planning
A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä(2023-01) Galan, Juanjo; Galiana, Francisco; Kotze, D. Johan; Lynch, Kevin; Torreggiani, Daniele; Pedroli, BasThe development of legitimate, operative, and feasible landscape adaptation planning for climate change is dependent on the specific characteristics of the landscape and its inhabitants. Spatial patterns, culture, governance systems, socio-economic structures, planning methods, history, and collectively envisioned futures need to be accommodated. The literature suggests that landscape is a complex and dynamic socio-ecological system, the management and adaptation of which requires systemic and integrative approaches to respond to a wide variety of drivers of change, challenges, and interests. Based on activities developed in 15 European pilot landscapes, we identify some of the key factors and conditions affecting the generation of representative local networks for landscape adaptation to climate change. We illustrate how social learning and co-creation processes can be implemented in them and how their co-produced outcomes can help local communities overcome barriers and address critical issues in adaptive planning. Our results provide a framework for the creation of similar networks in other landscapes, exploring at the same time the interactions between the composition of networks, social learning, and the quality of the co-produced outputs as a fundamental step for the development of Landscape Adaptation Plans to Climate Change. - Landscape in Green Infrastructures & Interscalar Planning
School of Arts, Design and Architecture | A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä(2015) Galan, JuanjoThe transversal and interdisciplinary quality of landscape makes it an essential and useful element in regional and local planning. On the other hand, Green Infrastructures provide an exceptional tool to put in relation different planning scales and offer new possibilities and functions for the design and management of open spaces. The Strategic Plan for the Calderona Mountain Range (Valencia province, Spain) shows how these two concepts: Landscape and Green Infrastructure can work hand in hand to construct a more sustainable and harmonic territory. The Plan defines a multifunctional Green Infrastructure with the aim to preserve and improve the ecological and visual quality of the territory and, at the same time, guide the future evolution of the agricultural, natural and urban areas. In order to fulfill these functions the work was structured in four stages. Firstly, the Landscape Characterization of the whole area (200 km2) permitted, after studying the existing patterns, resources and socio environmental processes, the definition of a system of Landscape Units and Landscape Resources which were, in a second stage, assessed through a public participation process (Landscape Assessment). Once the whole territory had been studied, the Strategic Plan formulates a set of Objectives and Strategies and in its fourth phase defines a set of ten thematic Plans regulating the most important activities and land uses. In this later stage, the “Landscape Plan” was given a leading role since it was guiding through the Green Infrastructure and through its determinations, the performance and evolution of most of the land uses and activities. The Green Infrastructure was primarily based in natural and human systems which could be very easily recognized and incorporated in it. In contrast, the addition of some connectors and specially, of some areas for the control and shaping of urban land, required a more intentional approach. Since the Calderona Mountain Range is part of a Natural Park, a high percentage of the whole territory, basically with a natural character, was included in the Green Infrastructure. In spite of their lower proportion, strategic agricultural areas proved to be a fundamental part of the Infrastructure for controlling urban sprawl. On the other hand, the most valuable open spaces in the urban and peri-urban contexts were essential to introduce the Green Infrastructure in towns, villages and housing estates through a capillary micro system including parks, squares and strategic streets. - Multicultural well-being through urban public space
School of Arts, Design and Architecture | Master's thesis(2020) Qvis, LottaThis thesis studies the relation between multiculturalism and urban public space to find ways in which landscape architects can contribute to increase multicultural well-being in Finland through their work in the urban public spaces. The study is largely based on literature studies where the relation between multicultural well-being and public spaces is sought through sociology studies, Finnish cultural history and public space assessment theories. The findings from the literature study are presented as a toolbox that strives to help landscape architects to assess and improve public space in multicultural societies to better function as an intercultural meeting point. The toolbox is tested in a few field studies to assess its usefulness. It was found that public space can potentially play a large role in establishing multiculturalism and well-being in multicultural societies by being an equally shared space for social interaction. These meetings will however only be beneficial when all ethnocultural groups have a strong cultural identity and belonging, there is a shared sense of ownership and national identity and there is an invitation for intercultural contact. Different kinds of cultural representations, participatory programs and public spaces that encourage social gathering are ways landscape architects can strengthen these aspects through the public space. The toolbox will need some further testing before being proven useful for landscape architects, but the findings in this study may well be proven useful for landscape architects to understand how the public space can affect the multicultural well-being and how the public space can be improved to become a better functioning intercultural meeting point. - Pedagogy of Planning Studios for Multidisciplinary, Research-Oriented, Personalized, and Intensive Learning
A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä(2024-09) Galan, Juanjo; Kotze, D. JohanThrough this paper, we investigate the key characteristics of planning studios and how they relate to new demands in planning education. The research is conducted through an analytical framework that is applied to a highly transferable case study (iWater Summer Schools). Results confirm that the prototypical characteristics of planning studios can support the design of multidisciplinary, research-oriented, personalized, and intensive courses, and that all these demands can be simultaneously satisfied. In addition, results indicate that positive alignments and connections can be established between different pedagogical variables (e.g., learning methods, assessment methods, provided skills) and the educational demands mentioned above. - A tool to assess architectural education from the sustainable development perspective and the students’ viewpoint
A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä(2021-08-26) Martínez-Ventura, Jordi; de-Miguel-Arbonés, Eduardo; Sentieri-Omarrementería, Carla; Galan, Juanjo; Calero-Llinares, MaríaArchitectural education plays a fundamental role in achieving sustainable development by training future professionals who can contribute to sustainability through their practice. Nevertheless, to ensure the introduction of sustainable development in the education of future architects, it is fundamental to understand what is being done and what could be improved. Despite this, a big gap has been detected in the assessment of architectural education in Spain and worldwide. Thus, a close-ended questionnaire for students has been designed based on the outcomes from a literature review, exploratory interviews with specialists, and the qualitative analysis of two schools of architecture. Additionally, it has been revised by experts, through the pilot study of a preliminary version, and with the supplementary analysis of the answers to a final test with students from different schools from Spain. In particular, this questionnaire allows for comprehensively measuring the students’ perception of their sustainability learning outcomes, their learning experience, and the connection between, with the aim of facilitating the adjustment of Spanish architectural education towards the introduction or enhancement of sustainable development by education managers, teachers, policymakers, and professional associations.