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<div class="csl-entry">Catalano, C., Hauck, T., Ahn, S., & Pasta, S. C. (2023). Landscapes without landscape architects : the ecological beauty of informal urban landscapes. <i>Agathón : International Journal of Architecture, Art and Design</i>, <i>13</i>, 57–66. https://doi.org/10.19229/2464-9309/1342023</div>
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dc.identifier.issn
2464-9309
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dc.identifier.uri
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12708/190095
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dc.description
Text in englischer und italienischer Sprache
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dc.description.abstract
Regarding the maintenance of urban green infrastructure, most stakeholders prefer achieving an oversimplified aesthetic archetype of cleanliness and order at the cost of high maintenance, whilst landscape architects try to reproduce islands of near-natural vegetation even where the environmental factors typical of urban areas do not allow it. In the long term, the struggle between these two opposite ways of conceiving the look and the role of green infrastructure appears pointless: in the end, what decides the identity of most urban green infrastructure is the ‘vegetation by use’, that is, the daily people’s use of these spaces (whether accessible). By analysing the aesthetic value, the species composition, and the ecological meaning of the vegetation of some roadside habitats close to the city of Catania (Sicily), the Authors shed light on the possibility of enjoying low-cost, biodiverse and beautiful seasonally green areas.
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dc.description.abstract
Per la progettazione e manutenzione delle infrastrutture verdi urbane le Pubbliche Ammi- nistrazioni seguono modelli e archetipi estetici di decoro urbano accettati dalla cittadinanza, mentre i paesaggisti cercano di riprodurre isole di vegetazione a elevata ‘naturalità’, anche quando le condizioni ambientali delle aree urbane non lo permettono. A lungo termine, in entrambi i casi, i diversi obiettivi e le differenti visioni delle infrastrutture verdi urbane com- portano inutili costi di manutenzione poiché ciò che definisce l’identità di un’area verde è l’uso prevalente che si fa della vegetazione. L’obiettivo di questo contributo è analizzare la composizione floristica e il significato ecologico degli habitat stradali nel caso studio della Città Metropolitana di Catania (Italia), insistendo sul valore estetico delle aree verdi stagionali a basso costo (spontanee) e biodiverse.
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dc.language.iso
en
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dc.language.iso
it
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dc.publisher
Palermo University Press
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dc.relation.ispartof
Agathón : International Journal of Architecture, Art and Design
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dc.rights.uri
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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dc.subject
green infrastructure
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dc.subject
nature-based solutions
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dc.subject
spontaneous vegetation
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dc.subject
trace reading
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urban microhabitats
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dc.title
Landscapes without landscape architects : the ecological beauty of informal urban landscapes
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dc.title.alternative
Paesaggi senza architetti del paesaggio : la bellezza ecologica dei paesaggi urbani informali
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dc.type
Article
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Artikel
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dc.rights.license
Creative Commons Namensnennung 4.0 International
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dc.rights.license
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
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dc.contributor.affiliation
ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
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dc.contributor.affiliation
University of Palermo, Italy
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dc.description.startpage
57
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dc.description.endpage
66
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dcterms.dateSubmitted
2023-04-30
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dc.rights.holder
Copyright (c) 2023 Chiara Catalano, Thomas E. Hauck, Susann Ahn, Salvatore Pasta
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dc.type.category
Original Research Article
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tuw.container.volume
13
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tuw.journal.peerreviewed
true
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tuw.peerreviewed
true
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wb.publication.intCoWork
International Co-publication
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tuw.publication.invited
invited
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tuw.researchTopic.id
A2
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tuw.researchTopic.name
Urban and Regional Transformation
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tuw.researchTopic.value
100
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tuw.linking
https://www.agathon.it/agathon/article/view/345
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dcterms.isPartOf.title
Agathón : International Journal of Architecture, Art and Design
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tuw.publication.orgunit
E260-02 - Forschungsbereich Landschaftsarchitektur und Landschaftsplanung