This reflection arises from a look at the African landscape, the mountains and their ecosystems, the agriculture, the heritage, communities and identity. This is about the landscape, which integrates man and territory, and its multifunctionality that includes the production system (agriculture), protection (ecosystems, flows and ecological processes) and the cultural system (communities and the way they build s...
Quy Nhon city is a grade 1 city situated in Binh Dinh province, in Viet Nam. Its population was 481.110 inhabitants and it had an urbanization rate of 60% in 2019, while Quy nhon population numbered just 260.000 in 2017. In order to evaluate the relationship between urban heat island and land cover, we used Landsat satellite imagery from 1990 to 2020 to classify the land cover by using the Support Vector Machin...
The main objective of this paper is to define the role and the importance of the urban allotment gardens in the consideration of Lisbon as the European Green Capital in 2020. In the first part of the paper, we seek to trace the historical evolution of vegetable gardens in the context of city development. In the second part, one proceeds to its mapping and its identification and characterization considering the ...
The speech about Smart Cities includes a discourse where the sustainability of cities is unavoidable. Blue and green infrastructures (BGI) have a great role in cities sustainability because they offer feasible and valuable economic, social and environmental solutions for urban areas facing the challenges of climate change such as cloudbursts and droughts. BGI connects urban hydrological functions with urban nat...
It is due to the modern movement the loss of both landscape and open spaces multifunctionality. Consequently, it merges the term of “green spaces” amorphous and residual, often void and without any appropriation, so characteristic of the contemporary city. This study is a reflexion about and a practice result of the return to these spaces multifunctionality through a landscape structure on the urban space. We w...
Com Paisagem e Património III (2013-2014) abordamos agora o Som, elemento frequentemente relegado para segundo plano, o que está em manifesta contradição com o impacto que tem na nossa apreciação da paisagem, mas também do património. Capacidade auditiva e sentido de equilíbrio são as duas funções do ouvido, que fazem dele um órgão do espaço tridimensional. A propagação relativamente lenta do som (330m p/ segun...
Introdução - A defesa do património, é um problema com que os técnicos e o público, em geral, se deparam actualmente. Mas que protecção, salvaguarda e valores se devem defender, quando princípios neste âmbito são ignorados pelas entidades responsáveis e competentes? No que se refere ao património paisagístico, nomeadamente os jardins históricos portugueses, o problema agrava-se, uma vez que muito pouco está cla...
Since the ‘70s of the twentieth century, with the contribution of Rosario Assunto, landscape becomes a comprehensive and inclusive concept, in which is inherent the experience of space. For this author landscape is an aesthetic reality that we contemplate living in it. In the landscape is reflected the free creative action of man - the landscape is an art product, and of a human action aimed at changing the nat...
A questão a desenvolver nesta sessão será a prática da caminhada como acto de descoberta, como instrumento de conhecimento, como prática estética do saber. Acto fundador da transformação simbólica do território desde a Pré-história, a travessia pedonal do espaço é também uma intervenção física do corpo sobre a paisagem. Esta intervenção pode ser entendida como obra de arte em si, mas também pode dar lugar a out...