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Evolving Landscape Design and Planning: From Infrastructure Landscapes to Future Research Frontiers

A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X). This special issue belongs to the section "Land Planning and Landscape Architecture".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 May 2025 | Viewed by 6622

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Romanos Ioannidis

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Department of Water Resources and Environmental Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece
Interests: landscape; landscape impacts; spatial planning; architectural design; landscape design; infrastructure; renewable energy; public perception; crowdsourcing; GIS; visibility analysis
Dr. Nikos Mamassis

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School of Civil Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece
Interests: energy technology; ecology; hydrometeorology; water resources management; aquatic environment; ancient engineering works; engineering and humanities
Dr. Julia Nerantzia Tzortzi

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Department of Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering (DABC), Politecnico di Milano, 20133 Milan, Italy
Interests: landscape architecture; landscape planning; natural based solutions; urban sustainability; urban microclimate; vertical green urban biodiversity; green infrastructures; cultural heritage landscapes design
Dr. Konstantinos Moraitis

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School of Architecture, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece
Interests: landscape; landscape history and theory; landscape design; place branding; theory and methodology of architectural design; philosophy of civilization
Dr. Aspaso-Aspassia Kouzoupi

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Department of Architecture, University of Thessaly, 38334 Volos, Greece
Interests: architectural design; urban public space; urban ecosystems; landscape theory; natural, urban and rural landscapes

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

(1) Introduction.

The last two decades have seen a remarkable proliferation of research in matters of landscapes. This can largely be attributed to the challenges that have emerged during the effort to integrate renewable energy infrastructure into landscapes.

The areas in which research has flourished include landscape planning and policy, landscape assessment, spatial planning, participatory planning processes and various other areas of landscape-related research.

There is now a need to organize this knowledge, highlight its state-of-the-art aspects and elevate relevant research to new levels. Furthermore, our time presents a great opportunity to also expand the frontiers of landscape research to other contemporary issues of landscapes, beyond the scope of the renewable energy expansion.

(2) Aim of the Special Issue.

The goal of this Special Issue is to collect papers to carry out the following goals:

(a) Advance research on renewable energy landscapes, including planning, landscape design, policy, impact assessment and participatory processes .

(b) Collect, analyse and review existing knowledge and state of the art from the last two decades, identifying weaknesses and highlighting important conclusions with future significance.

(c) Expand the knowledge that has been generated through the contemporary focus of landscape research on renewable energy, to other landscape issues and other fields of landscape research.

(3) Suggested themes.

This Special Issue will welcome manuscripts on the following themes:

  • Landscape analysis, planning and protection;
  • Integration of renewable energy and other infrastructure into landscapes;
  • Public participation in planning processes and landscape assessment;
  • Investigation of the social acceptance of infrastructure;
  • Landscape and architectural design in infrastructure works;
  • Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and visibility analysis;
  • Landscape in the context of multicriteria and optimization studies;
  • Economic aspects of landscape impacts;
  • Heritage and renewable energy;
  • Landscape and planning policies.

We look forward to receiving your original research articles and reviews.

Dr. Romanos Ioannidis
Dr. Nikos Mamassis
Dr. Julia Nerantzia Tzortzi
Dr. Konstantinos Moraitis
Dr. Aspaso-Aspassia Kouzoupi
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Land is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • landscape
  • spatial planning
  • renewable energy
  • landscape impacts
  • participatory processes
  • cultural heritage
  • landscape design
  • visibility analysis
  • architecture
  • public perception
  • social acceptance
  • landscape and blue/green/grey infrastructure

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Offshore Wind Farms and Tourism Development Relationship to Energy Distribution Justice for the Beibu Gulf, China
by Xin Nie, Hubin Ma, Sihan Chen, Kailu Li, Zhenhan Yu, Han Wang and Zhuxia Wei
Land 2024, 13(5), 678; https://doi.org/10.3390/land13050678 - 13 May 2024
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Energy distribution justice is of primary concern within the energy justice framework and it is crucial to increase public acceptance of offshore wind energy and further advance its development. The rapid development of offshore wind energy in China has inevitably impacted the livelihoods [...] Read more.
Energy distribution justice is of primary concern within the energy justice framework and it is crucial to increase public acceptance of offshore wind energy and further advance its development. The rapid development of offshore wind energy in China has inevitably impacted the livelihoods of coastal vulnerable groups (CVGs) engaged in fisheries and tourism in the coastal zone. While current policies often compensate for livelihood losses through cash payments, the fiscal strain caused by COVID-19 renders this approach unsustainable. Consequently, this research pioneers the exploration of Chinese tourist groups’ landscape preferences towards offshore wind farms (OWFs). This study proposes a new approach to enhance OWF landscapes for tourism development, thereby balancing the distribution of costs and benefits between CVGs and tourists. The research focuses on Beihai City in the Beibu Gulf Economic Region, utilizing a combination of Q-methodology and choice experiments that incorporates cut-offs. Answers to eighty Q-methodology questionnaires and 1324 choice experiment questionnaires are obtained. The findings indicate that this region can achieve energy distribution justice by compensating for the livelihood losses of CVGs through tourism. Contrary to traditional assumptions about wind farm noise preferences, Chinese tourists prefer proximity to OWFs, as an appropriate coastal acoustics landscape can enhance their tourism experience. In light of these findings, this paper presents policy recommendations towards energy distribution justice. Full article
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An Investigation of the Perception of Neoclassical, Eclectic, Modernist, and Postmodern Architecture within Different Urban Landscapes: Athens vs. Paris
by Amaury Chesné and Romanos Ioannidis
Land 2024, 13(3), 340; https://doi.org/10.3390/land13030340 - 7 Mar 2024
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The public perception of buildings belonging to different architectural movements is a largely unexplored area from a quantitative scientific perspective. However, a better scientific understanding of perceptions of architectural movements is important for the formation of improved planning and design policies. In this [...] Read more.
The public perception of buildings belonging to different architectural movements is a largely unexplored area from a quantitative scientific perspective. However, a better scientific understanding of perceptions of architectural movements is important for the formation of improved planning and design policies. In this work, we carry out an initial exploration of the public preferences of the architectural movements of Neoclassicism, Eclecticism, Modernism, and Postmodernism. To this aim, a total of 103 citizens from Athens (Greece) and Paris (France) were presented with the same questions regarding their opinions on buildings belonging to those movements. In the analysis and interpretation of the collected data, the different cultural, professional, and demographic characteristics of participants were then considered, as well as the role of the urban landscapes of Athens and Paris as the historical, societal, and aesthetic contexts that influence and shape perceptions. The results demonstrated a clear and uniform prevalence of Neoclassical architecture in terms of positive public perception in both cities. Similarly, in both cities, Eclecticism followed with a relatively more positive perception than Modern and Postmodern architectural styles, which were rated the lowest. However, a significant difference between the two cities was that when participants singled out their primary favorite style, Modernism enjoyed higher favorability in Athens than in Paris. These findings and their theoretical exploration provide inferences into the complexities of public perceptions of architectural styles, with potential implications for the integration of citizen preferences into future research on architectural/urban design and planning. Full article
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Land Use as a Crucial Resource for Smart Grids—The ‘Common Good’ of Renewables in Distributed Energy Systems
by Maarten Wolsink
Land 2024, 13(8), 1236; https://doi.org/10.3390/land13081236 - 8 Aug 2024
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The energy transition involves transforming electricity supply systems. Smart grids are resilient, polycentric systems consisting of integrated, self-governed Microgrids including distributed energy systems (DES). Renewable energy requires high numbers and a huge variety of infrastructures, requiring large amounts of spaces, including land. Renewable [...] Read more.
The energy transition involves transforming electricity supply systems. Smart grids are resilient, polycentric systems consisting of integrated, self-governed Microgrids including distributed energy systems (DES). Renewable energy requires high numbers and a huge variety of infrastructures, requiring large amounts of spaces, including land. Renewable energy flows and land are natural resources. This analysis applies Ostrom’s common pool resources (CPR) theory on the sustainable use of ecosystems and natural resources to explore DES as a “common good” with spaces and land as crucial scarce resources. Currently, electricity grids are monocultures with highly centralized and hierarchical governance structures, where the juxtaposition of electricity as public and private good is considered self-evident. The emergence of DES in smart Microgrids is disrupting these monocultures, which is one aspect of the full transformation from current centralized grids towards resilient, integrated Microgrids based on variety and adaptive capacity. The other component of the transformation concerns the essential resource of space. As land and other spaces, such as rooftops, are subject to diverse property regimes, CPR is also applicable for analyzing the required changes in property rights and land-use decision-making. Such changes are necessary to make sufficient space available for the infrastructures of community Microgrids. Full article
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