Getting acquainted with their landscape: research by design as a tool to understand people's perception of current and future landscapes

In the current policy setting in Western European society, spatial planning tends to emphasise the achievement of policy intentions through the realisation of actual spatial interventions and the growing importance of citizens as spatial actors. The place-based planning approach refers to the fact that the design of integrated interventions must be tailored to places, since it largely depends on the knowledge and preference of people living in it.This paper unpacks the planning practice in Flanders by analysing and describing two landscape cases, as the actual arenas where different social act... Mehr ...