Roles and methods for landscape architecture in comprehensive planning

About this programme

The course discusses and critiques values and processes which inform and impact on municipality planning. In light of uncertainty developed through climate and social change the course questions how sustainable development and citizen influence can help municipalities make better basis for decisions. The course draws on landscape, as formulated in the European Landscape Convention, as the lens for dealing with these questions, framed with in the multiple goals society, legislation etc. provide the framework. While the course will address a case based in a Swedish planning context, the issues that arise are set in and have relevance for European and global situations. Landscape planning theories and approaches are presented and discussed in lectures and seminars. The main assignment draws on the literature discussed in order to formulate a proposal for future interventions on the landscape of the municipality, communicated through a comprehensive plan. The course offer insights in the role of a project leader for comprehensive planning at community and regional level including both legal processes, teamwork strategies among specialists, environmental assessments and public participation. Knowledge equivalent to 180 credits of which 90 credits in Landscape Architecture, and/or Physical or Urban Planning and/or Community Planning and/or Rural Development, and knowledge equivalent to English 6, or admitted to the Landscape Architecture for Sustainable Urbanisation – Master´s programme.