Topics and Methods for Urban and Landscape Design: From the river to the project (Urban and Landscape Perspectives Book 19)

This book combines urban planning and architectural tools in an attempt to overcome the limitations of sectoral measures. In this perspective, it offers a forum for the debate of different approaches used by schools of planning and architecture. It explores strategies by drawing from the potential contributions of cognitive models for decisions, the role of utopian thinking and retrofitting actions and their interconnectedness, the role of cultural legacy for urban and landscape design, the design perspectives about public spaces, and the role of architecture design and urban and regional planning for landscape quality. The book also discusses on design as a process of decision-making that operates as an act of empathy that aligns with human and ecological values - emotional, physical and socio-cultural. Each planning and design act has different possible effects able to help making clear strategic and local actions, contributing to community empowerment and to landscape and local governance. Design activity along the river and multiple experiences (design processes, urban fringe design, agri-urban models, river parks, UNESCO sites, River Contracts, greenbelts and ecological networks), through reflection on design roles, helping to understand the design process and its results at different scales. **Roberta Ingaramo**, architect, PhD, is Assistant Professor in Architectural and Urban Design, Department of Architecture and Design (DAD), Polytechnic University of Turin (Italy), Master in Conservation of Historic Towns and Buildings, Katholieke Universiteit (Belgium). roberta.ingaramo@polito.it **Angioletta Voghera**, architect, PhD, is Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, Inter-university Department of Urban and Regional Studies and Planning (DIST), Polytechnic University of Turin (Italy). angioletta.voghera@polito.it Front Matter....Pages i-xii From the River to the Project....Pages 1-9 Front Matter....Pages 11-11 Approaches, Tools, Methods and Experiences for Territorial and Landscape Design....Pages 13-34 Urban and Architectural Forms....Pages 35-67 Experimenting Design Tools....Pages 69-81 Front Matter....Pages 83-83 Territorial Governance in the River Districts: Methods and New Tools for Landscape Design Along the Po River....Pages 85-97 Planning Knowledge and Process for Strategies of Participatory River Contracts....Pages 99-126 Design Along the River as a Landscape Matter....Pages 127-139 A Future for Our Past: Textile Colonies in Catalonia....Pages 141-156 Agro-Urban Models in the Sarno River Plain....Pages 157-166 Work in Process, Work on Process: Designing the Riversides....Pages 167-181 Microclimate Models for a Sustainable and Liveable Urban Planning ....Pages 183-209 Front Matter....Pages 211-211 From the Past into the Future: The Utopian Roots of Ecological Planning in North America....Pages 213-226 Integrating Methods : Aligning the Effects of Scale and Bias ....Pages 227-249 Lesson Learned and Road Map....Pages 251-255 Back Matter....Pages 257-259