Journal
LANDSCAPE RESEARCH
Volume 47, Issue 3, Pages 370-387Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/01426397.2022.2039109
Keywords
Civil infrastructure; landscape design; water-blue infrastructure; dams; feasibility; project cost; landscape value perception; geotagged photography data bases; Google Earth; landscape policy
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- Eugenides Foundation through its Scholarships Program for Doctorate Research in the National Technical University of Athens
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This study investigates the role of landscape design in civil infrastructure works, with a focus on dam design. The results demonstrate that landscape design improves the perception of infrastructure landscapes and can be implemented economically and technically feasible.
Landscape design of major civil infrastructure works has often been undermined as a policy requirement or been neglected in practice. We investigate whether this is justified by technical challenges, high costs or proven lack of utility of landscape design of infrastructure, focussing on dam-design practice. Initially, we investigate global practice and identify 56 cases of dams in which landscape or architectural treatment has been applied. We then create a typology of utilised design techniques and investigate their contribution to improving landscape quality perception through literature review and through the analysis of photograph upload densities in geotagged photography databases. Finally, we investigate costs of landscape works, analysing three dam projects in detail. The results demonstrate that landscape design of civil infrastructure (a) improves landscape quality perception of infrastructures' landscapes and (b) that its implementation can be both economically and technically feasible, especially if existing knowledge from best practices is utilised.
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