Landscape planning and architecture
Landscape planning and landscape architecture include design and management of landscapes, i.e. cultural or natural land areas, urban as well as rural.
Landscape planning and architecture are also connected to architecture, ecology, environmental psychology, sociology, environmental communication and system theory.
Landscape planning is also a branch within forestry and includes road and cutting planning etc.
Landscape PhD students from all over Europe met in Alnarp
15 PhD students from diverse knowledge fields gathered at SLU Alnarp to finalize the bi-annual PhD course on Landscape Governance and Management. Nature-Based Solutions was the main topic. Thomas
Children get to shape green spaces at Malmö Festival
axel.a.bengtsson@slu.se In August, SLU Urban Futures and Växtplats Botildenborg are organizing activities in Malmö Festival's Children's Land. The aim is to arouse children's interest in sustainable
New webinar series: Urban Waterscapes
Two lunch webinar opportunities will be available in June - one about Waterscapes in the biosphere and another about Urban fishing. Welcome to sign-up and participate! The Urban Waterscapes webinar
Combining fishers’ knowledge and monitoring data to understand the status of the blue urban commons in Stockholm City
catherine.kihlstrom@slu.se Waterbodies within cities are often drastically altered by humans through construction, the input of nutrients and hazardous substances, and the introduction of alien
Waterscapes in the biosphere: challenges, opportunities and emerging research themes
catherine.kihlstrom@slu.se Elias Regelin, Johan Hedin, Magnus Pamp from 'Biosfärområde Älvlandskapet Nedre Dalälven' will talk about the biosphere reserve and discuss different perspectives on
Experiments in design, nature, and the built environment - join the International visit with researchers from North Carolina State University
catherine.kihlstrom@slu.se On May 23, SLU Urban Futures will host Dr. James Barnes and Professor Audrey Barnes, who will present some of their shared work on novel urban greening and activation
Masterclass Urban Futuring
catherine.kihlstrom@slu.se Moving towards more sustainable and just cities requires radical change. But current visions of future cities remain dominated by techno-utopias such as ‘smart cities’.
Welcome to visit the SLU Urbanscapes Exhibition in Ultuna!
SLU Urban Futures invites you to join the last week of the traveling exhibition on core urban themes at SLU. We display five urban landscape perspectives and a collaboration approach through Living
Built Environment
We survey and analyse the city and its environs. The results are intended to help in the achievement of the Sweden's environmental quality objective "Good Built Environment" as well as Sweden's
Agricultural Landscapes
We monitor the agricultural landscape and contribute to an overall picture of the environmental quality in the agricultural landscape. The results are used for evaluations of the Swedish
Challenges in restoring Sweden's urban ecosystems
From 2027, Sweden will work according to a national restoration plan for our nature, which includes urban ecosystems. At the webinar Meeting place: Urban ecosystems, organized by SLU Urban Futures
From Planning to Action: Building the Future of Urban Forestry
In a recent Makeathon organized in Malmö under the COST Action European Network for the Integrative Approach of Urban Forestry (INTUF), researchers and urban forestry experts came together to design