Abstract The low‐lying, arid coastal regions of the Southern Mediterranean Basin, extending over 4,600 km, face daunting sea level rise and hydroclimatic changes due to shifting weather patterns. impact these factors on urban buildings infrastructure must be better understood. Alexandria, a historic densely populated port city in Egypt representative several towns Mediterranean, has experienced 280 building collapses along its shorelines past two decades, root causes are still under...

Although there have been numerous studies on the heritage attributes, characteristics, and values of historic garden as a special category cultural heritage, question is why comprehensive review combining mainstream conservation with ways understanding in landscape context has not conducted. Landscape an integrative concept that combines physical features diversity functions social ecological processes throughout scales time space. Therefore, this means applying approach to explore organic...

Research <i>through</i> design (RTD) is a frequently used concept in the daily practice of education and research field landscape architecture. RTD as usually refers to method which spatial plays leading role. The underlying premise that form involves culture thought. There dearth literature addressing act process This article contributes discourse by how can be applied strategy. We define identify <i>how</i> relates other more conventional definitions methods. elaborate on types knowledge...

This article introduces a research strategy for landscape architectonic design. It describes systematic approach where design and research-by-design are combined. Design is considered to be an indispensable step in research-by-design. Together they constitute heuristic knowledge-based creative design, include plan analysis, comparative experimental study study. Taken together these modes of termed design-related research. The development architecture regarded as crucial understanding the...

Water is a critical element of human existence and has shaped cities for centuries. In urban environments, water provides multiple ecosystem services an important in the design environments. Next to many qualities provided by water, recent research indicates that exposure freshwater blue space also enhances health wellbeing. However, benefits are often not or implicitly taken into account perspective. This aims provide systematic overview available body knowledge regarding relationship...

Numerous studies show the benefits of wilderness to humans and environment. Therefore, preserving developing areas within urban settings are crucial combat mitigate challenges like biodiversity decline resulting from urbanization. According previous studies, human-wilderness interactions can be contradictory, e.g., relaxing while feeling anxious insecure. How individuals perceive comprehend intentional wilderness, what dimensions contribute their perceptions, how these influence visitors'...

This research presents two projects, Collaborative Systems and On the Rocks, situated in Madrid's metropolitan area—an arid highland home to six million people. Historically, region relied on primary water sources: River Tagus, which supported agriculture, Guadarrama Mountains, supplied urban needs.The Tagus its tributaries suported agriculture through communal irrigation systems (acequias de careo) introduced during Moorish times. These watercourses infiltrated into soil, enabling...

New Towns in development across Africa are overwhelmingly designed according to twentieth-century planning models ranging from functionalist Chinese grids American gated communities. Contemporary African based on these often unable adapt stimuli and, as a result, exacerbate both spatial and ecological challenges. The objective of this paper is argue that require substantial shift current practice planners must imagine new, hybrid strategies. This takes an exploratory approach identifies the...

Groundwater is a vital resource for ecosystems, with its recharge process influenced by climate change and urbanization. The transformation of natural urban landscapes over-extraction groundwater contribute to depletion degradation. Recharge management are intricately linked land use landscape. Despite this close connection, spatially integrating strategies in the landscape context remains underexplored. This systematic review synthesizes state-of-the-art research at intersection spatial...

Rapid urbanization and climate change are driving forces that changing the urban landscape affecting resources environment, particularly in megacities of arid regions. Many these cities face an acute water crisis leading to over-exploitation groundwater resources. This has led depletion aquifers, land infertility, saline intrusion, subsidence, harm hydrological ecosystems. Globally, numerous studies have documented potential recharge (GWR) using GIS remote sensing techniques. However, its...

Groundwater is a vital resource for ecosystems, with its recharge process influenced by climate change and urbanization. The transformation of natural urban landscapes the over-extraction groundwater contribute to depletion degradation. management are intricately linked land use landscape. Despite this close connection, spatially integrating strategies in landscape context remains underexplored. This systematic review synthesizes state-of-the-art research at intersection spatial planning,...

Population growth and urbanization are straining the limited space in built environment. The business districts take up a great portion of this space. These face climate change hazards spatial emptiness due to their profit-driven foundation. Sustainable ambitions strategic locations offer potential rethink integrate them into living Understanding as workscapes, more socio-ecological inclusive districts, is new perspective. This research formulates method define quality through literature...

Rapid urbanization and climate change are the driving forces behind changing urban landscape affecting natural resources environment, particularly in megacities of arid regions. Many these cities face an acute water crisis leading to over-exploitation groundwater resources. This has led depletion aquifers, land infertility, saline intrusion, subsidence, harm hydrological ecosystems. Globally, numerous studies have documented potential recharge (GWR) using GIS remote sensing techniques....

This paper explores infrastructure as a type of landscape and infrastructure. The hybridisation the two concepts, infrastructure, seeks to redefine beyond its strictly utilitarian definition, while allowing design disciplines gain operative force in territorial transformation processes. aims put forward urban infrastructures concept, considering them armatures for development facilitating functional, social ecological interactions. It infrastructural an interdisciplinary effort to establish...

Water, a vital element of human existence, shapes cities and benefits health through daily exposure. This study delves into advanced digital methods to describe blue space exposure effectively, aiming optimise spatial accessibility visibility water for designing sustainable healthy urban environments. Rotterdam is utilised as test case, demonstrating the role these in evaluating performance environments, specifically terms morphology physical characteristics. Eight distinct are discussed,...

Exploring the Visual Landscape is about combination of landscape research and planning, visual perception Geographic Information Science. It showcases possible ways getting a grip on themes like: openness, cluttering rural landscape, high-rise buildings in relation to cityscape, historic landscapes motorway panoramas. offers clues for assessment spaces cities, parks areas. In that respect, it extends long tradition Netherlands physiognomic shows state art at this moment. important theory,...

Planning and design approaches in urbanized deltas are a process of fundamental reconsideration. For new approach, it is fruitful to consider the delta area as complex, layered system, based upon complex-systems theories layer-based methods. With this theoretical point view, we can distinguish several development periods like Mississippi River Dutch Rhine-Meuse-Scheldt delta. In current period, both find themselves transition between regime recent past regime. process, planning...