It is a discipline that involves the planning, design, and management of open spaces to create urban and rural environments, architecturally and urbanistically.
It can be implemented anywhere from cities to blighted areas to industrial plants, being inspired by any natural element.
When people talk about landscape design, they mistakenly think of the desire to create an outdoor environment that is only aesthetically beautiful, but the underlying principles are much more complex.
Defining proper landscape architecture means being aware of the natural value of the place in which one is operating, its history and socio-cultural aspects, and making choices that are aimed at enhancing, restoring or creating spaces that can bring the site closer to its pre-existing natural condition.
In interventions with a high landscape and natural impact, such as those for the construction of logistic settlements, landscape design plays a key role in environmental and visual mitigation and compensation, as well as protection towards sensitive environmental receptors in the area. The landscape thus contributes to optimizing the insertion of the property into the land and environment and to rebalancing any induced imbalances on the environment.
Adequate landscape design is synergistically influenced by numerous ESG aspects identifiable in three macro-categories:
Because the preservation and maintenance of the significant or characteristic aspects of a landscape require actions aimed in a sustainable development perspective to ensure the governance of the landscape in order to guide and harmonize its transformations caused by social, economic and environmental development processes.
Planning, as well as designing, a landscape indicates the strongly forward-looking actions aimed at enhancing, restoring, or creating landscapes, and result in:
The landscape performs important functions of general interest on the cultural, ecological, environmental, and social levels and is a favorable resource for economic activity, and if safeguarded, managed and planned properly, can contribute to job creation.
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