Challenges of integrating sustainable landscape planning into urban upgrading of historic city centres
Keywords:
bio-diversity, ecological balance, heritage preservation, inclusiveness, social-ecology, sprawl developmentAbstract
Urban upgrading is common in historic city centres. The participation of landscape architects in upgrading effort of the city centre throws up more challenges due to their peculiar nature. This study set out to identify the challenges that face designers in sustainable landscape planning for urban upgrading of historic city centres. Historic city centres attract upgrading because they are the older part of the urban setting and are prone to sprawl, congestion, property fragmentation, slum proliferation and degeneration. The need to bring sustainability into landscape planning for such areas requires more effort from landscape architects bearing in mind that landscape planning is just a part of the general upgrade planning which requires the input of residents, government, stakeholders, facilitators and technocrats. This study is based on literature and was conducted by topic-mining in the Science Citations Index (SCI) and Social Studies Citations Index (SSCI) in Web of Science citations. The major findings and conclusions from the search topics were streamlined to arrive at the best intersections of the problems of urban upgrading in historic city centres and the peculiarity of sustainable landscape planning. The study identified loss of urban heritage values, lack of inclusiveness, gentrification and diminished socio-cultural legacy as the major problems of past urban upgrade programmes in historic city centres. It also identified the need to encourage bio-diversity, resilience and socio-ecological balance even within the appeal of aesthetics as vital to sustainable landscape planning. It concluded that creating awareness among all participants of the upgrade process and freeing-up outdoor space are vital to integrating sustainable landscape planning into urban upgrading of historic city centres.
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