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Restoring Urban Ecology


Landscape in urban environment is critical component of ecological sustainability for cities. Ecological sustainability of city relies on the landscape elements and their continuity and it is an important approach towards ecological sensibility. Landscape urbanism attempts to shift notions of object-based urban design to seek innovation within the interactions of existing urban systems, identifies opportunities in infrastructure, and sees landscape as much an organizing force towards ecological sustainability of the city. So, rather than seeing the design disciplines as separate, both ecological and landscape urbanism realize a more powerful synthetic approach for better urban environment. Ecological urbanism is an approach that favors dynamic integration between natural and urban systems. Landscape urbanism should not be for aesthetic recognition alone but also defines ecological urbanism as participant to measurable improvements in the effect that our cities have on the larger environment and vice versa.
Aesthetics are also important in an urbanism and we need landscape architects to design potential ecology restoration that can work in long run to revitalize urban ecology. We need to bring the hybridity in design process, all diverse disciplinary background urban planners, architects, landscape architects, sustainable engineers to collaborate and work together as a team for complex urban projects in building ecological sustainable urban environment. We aspire to create urban landscape that become an integral and enriching part of daily life, places that inspire us and are socially sustainable. Creating landscape in urban context should not just designing places to escape and away from the city, but places to escape within the city for urban daily life. This balance between nature, built environment and humanity is important in designing ecological sustainable cities to create places where people feel embraced, welcomed and comfortable, to make areas for landscape as program, and to always think of landscape as places of activities. Designers need to be more inventive within a diverse set of constraints and more realistic in the way that all groups of people are afforded the kinds of park uses that are meaningful to them. Landscape remedy to restore urban ecology can be quite challenging because most of the time cities need to restore abandoned structures rather than creating totally new structure.
The purpose of landscape restoration old abandon structures is to serve people by thinking of every bit of the area to fulfill people’s function and need. A successful habitat restoration can be different from what a restoration ecologist might aspire to due to constraints. Designers need take with respect to sustainability which are not based on technology or material selection but instead have to do with looking for opportunities to be resourceful and allowing this to become an integral part of the restoration. Resourcefulness also gets to the essence of what ecology sustainability is all about. Designed landscapes in urban environment, whether big or small, are ultimately about making the everyday lives of all people richer, fuller, and healthier.


Source- http://scenariojournal.com/article/changing-the-land/
Image Source- https://blog.frontiersin.org/2015/04/22/latest-section-urban-ecology-now-open-for-submissions/

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