Die Stadt als Sondertypus der Landschaft: Zur zukünftigen Rolle der Landschaftsarchitektur im Städtebau

Large-Scale Urban Parks on Post-Industrial Sites in Contemporary Urban Landscape Conceptions

“…The critical structuralism is a concept of structure pertaining to the characteristic urban landscape, deeply rooted in a unique cultural contextualization. The structure signifies complex, constructed, and layered landscape systems (Weilacher 2014). Accounting for the cultural contextualization, Peter Latz remarked that "landscape is basically history" that could not be "obliterated" but turned into "your partner" (Latz 2015).…”

“…Under these influences, the theoretical application of structuralism emerged in German landscape architecture at the beginning of the 1980s, contributing to the development of parks characterized by diverse legibility, flexible availability, and site-specific and historic links (Weilacher 2014). German landscape architect Peter Latz generated a profound impact on German large-scale landscape architecture and parks based on his predecessors' ideas of structuralism.…”

“…In landscape analysis, the structuralistic approach is offered for disassembling different and overlapping analytical structural levels when a complex, built landscape system at a large scale is considered. German landscape is hereby considered Gefüge, namely, a spatial structure composed of superimposed structural levels (Weilacher 2014). Levels of water systems, transportation systems, open space systems, building structures, and additional relevant networks are separately contemplated for analytical purposes and analyzed for specific problems (ibid.…”

“…Der Gedanke, jemals von einem unbeschriebenen wießen Blatt auszugehen und dieses unvermeidlich mit unwirklichen und sterilen Konstruktionen zu füllen, ist unsinnig und hat auch negative Folgen." (Hertzberger 1981;Weilacher 2014) Hermann Hertzberger's statement revealed that every solution in any place and time is an interpretation of the archetype, in both general and particular situations. We can only create something new regarding a different interpretation of existing images, re-evaluate them and make them suitable for our situation.…”