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CONSERVATION DESIGN
GOAL/DESCRIPTION
What is called ‘conservation design’ in the United States, would be labeled simply good planning in many other countries, or, alternatively, the basic premise for a substantial, socially and ecologically relevant landscape architecture: what is called ‘conservation design’ is usually a type of planning that starts from the existing landscape, and develops a vision for a place that capitalizes upon landscape assets in its spatial structure. Tracing of lot lines, roads, definition of amenities, densities, heights, clustering, combination of uses, all of this is grounded in a careful analysis of the current landscape. Ordinances and other regulation derive from that vision, and not the other way around.
Understanding the enabling factors and the obstacles for conservation design, not only opens up avenues for its application, but it also gives us insight in the fine mechanics of planning systems, in the differentiation of law, politics, economics, in cultural values, in images of nature.
COOPERATION
Cooperation with Minnesota Waters
RESULTS
Course book for my Site Planning Class at St Cloud State: Reinventing lakeside living. Learning from Minnesota(» download). I am working on a book based on this course book.
In progress: A paper on legal/ institutional drivers and impediments for conservation design.
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