Stewart, W.P., D. Liebert & K.W. Larking, 2004, Community identities as visions for landscape change, in: Landscape and Urban Planning, ,
- Author : Stewart, W.P., D. Liebert & K.W. Larking
- Year : 2004
- Journal/Series : Landscape and Urban Planning
- Pages : 315-334
- Contents in English : The growth of towns and cities, and their encroachment upon agricultural and forest lands, is conventionally viewed as both inevitable and largely uncontrollable. In United States and many other countries, the boundaries of urban areas are moving outward due to growth of residential developments, retail districts, and other related land uses. Communities that were once rural are now experiencing significant economic expansion, changing traffic patterns, infrastructure development, increasing demands on schools, and other issues connected to urban growth. In this paper, the inevitability of growth is not an issue: the primary concerns are the ability of communities to influence the nature of their growth and the relationship to changes in land use. Residents’ felts senses of their community can play substantial roles in determining visions for landscape change. Community identities are often anchored in tangible environment and events of a community, and have the potential to serve as visions for landscape planning processes. As an ultimate goal, in this study is directed toward developing strategies that integrate community-based values into planning processes. The specific objective is to explore ways in which local environments and events reflect community-based meanings. In this sense, the purpose is not focused on community identity, but assessing a way in which community identities can be articulated and implemented as visions into planning process.
- Comments/Notes : KEYWORDS: Sense of place, communities, planning, involvement, community identity, photo-elicitation, (participation). This paper is not on participation, but the described method can play an important role in participation and interactive landscape planning and landscape design.