Abstract

Given that evolving urban systems require ever more sophisticated and creative solutions to deal with uncertainty, designing for resilience in contemporary landscape architecture represents a cross-disciplinary endeavor. While there is a breadth of research on landscape resilience within the academy, the findings of this research are seldom making their way into physical practice. There are existent gaps between the objective, scientific method of scientists and the more intuitive qualitative language of designers and practitioners. The purpose of this paper is to help bridge these gaps and ultimately support an endemic process for more resilient landscape design creation. This paper proposes a framework that integrates analytic research (i.e., modeling and examination) and design creation (i.e., place-making) using processes that incorporate feedback to help adaptively achieve resilient design solutions. Concepts of Geodesign and Planning Support Systems (PSSs) are adapted as part of the framework to emphasize the importance of modeling, assessment, and quantification as part of processes for generating information useful to designers. This paper tests the suggested framework by conducting a pilot study using a coupled sociohydrological model. The relationships between runoff and associated design factors are examined. Questions on how analytic outcomes can be translated into information for landscape design are addressed along with some ideas on how key variables in the model can be translated into useful design information. The framework and pilot study support the notion that the creation of resilient communities would be greatly enhanced by having a navigable bridge between science and practice.

Highlights

  • Some of the current literature in resilient systems has been introduced in an attempt to define, examine, assess, and even forecast the issue under various and changing conditions [1,2,3]

  • Traditional landscape design that relies on designer creativity, subjective decisions, experiences, and artistic sense is an important and useful method of problem solving

  • This paper argues that in order for landscape architecture to effectively engage complex systems in resilient ways, it is necessary to bring science into the realm of physical and practical design

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Introduction

Some of the current literature in resilient systems has been introduced in an attempt to define, examine, assess, and even forecast the issue under various and changing conditions [1,2,3]. Operationalizing the concept has been challenging [7], especially in the planning and design disciplines that deal with large, complex urban systems [8]. One thing is becoming clear: the inherent uncertainty in urban systems requires ever more sophisticated and creative approaches in order to achieve resilient places [5,9,10]

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