Water landscapes

Intitolato "Water landscapes", il numero 2-2013 (autumn 2013) della rivista «JoLA-Journal of Landscape Architecture» è un numero tematico dedicato alla relazione tra gestione innovativa delle risorse idriche e progetto urbano e di architettura del paesaggio. Dall'editoriale: "As urbanization and modernizations processes - including mineral extraction processes, building on agricultural lands, de-urbanization, and massive urbanization - continue to transform territories across the globe, water is unavoidably and inevitably an element of both connection and contestation ... Architects, urban designers, and landscape architects are more creatively imagining the landscape and the city in relation to water. Projects that reunite engineered and natural processes and strengthen existing logics of sites are becoming the base for new regional and urban forms. In these innovative projects, soft engineering often complements hard engineering as a way to work with the forces of nature to reduce or mitigate the likely impacts of natural disasters."