Today’s landscape architects face countless new challenges and tasks posed by the missteps of the industrial age and are only partially concerned with the traditional tasks of the field such as the classical designing of gardens and parks.
The challenges lie in the redefinition of urban fallows, the re-naturalization of conversion areas, the reclamation of former industrial areas and the ecological safeguarding of places like former open-cast mining areas.
Projects beyond traditional horticultural architecture require a willingness to take experimental approaches to problem-solving (such as incorporating the traces of the industrial degradation into the new landscape’s aesthetic). |
