Representing Landscapes: Visualizing Climate Action

Contents

Notes on Contributors

Foreword by Cal A. Smith, FRSAA acknowledgments

1 Introduction-Representing Climate Action: A Collection of Works - Nadia Amoroso

2 Visualizing Climate Action: A Conversation with SCAPE Studio - Nadia Amoroso, Nans Voron, and Gena Wirth

3 Imaging Change - Chris Reed with Nadia Amoroso

4 Communicating Complexity through Simplicity - Molly Bourne

5 Climate Action: The Works of Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates - Laura Solano

6 Drawing Out Climate Action: The Role of Graphic Representation in Climate Centered Landscape Architectural Practice - Rebeca Popowsky and Siyu Du

7 Communicating Landscapes of Complexity with Chunks and Comics - Allyson Mendenhall

8 Function, Process, and Change: Designing Food Infrastructure to Protect Calgary's Vulnerable Communities - Matt Williams

9 Landscape of Relations - Andreas Kipar and Valeria Pagliaro

10 Urban Forests Landscape Designs Tailored to Dense Cityscapes - Michel Desvigne

11 Reinventing the Coast through Design - Miriam Garcia

12 Image, Narrative, and Action - Peter Veenstra

13 Realizing Happy Environments: Felixx's Visual Narrative of Change - Janine van den Dool, Michiel van Driesche, and Eduardo Marin Salina

14 Climate-Adaptive and Nature-Sensitive Approach for Livable Cities - Marit Janse

15 Visualizing Climate Action in Africa - the Works of GREENinc - Stuart Glen

16 Climate Action through Landscape Architecture: A South African Perspective - Stefan du Toit and Carmen van den Einde

17 Modular Approach Creating Low-Maintenance Sponge City: Benjakitti Forest Park in Bangkok, Thailand - Kongjian Yu and Dong Wang

18 Landscape Frontiers: Designing within the New Geographies of the Climate Crisis - Billy Fleming

19 Landscape from Atmosphere to Below: Representation and the Climate Crisis - Rosalea Monacella and Craig Douglas

20 The Specters of a Changing Climate - Bradley Cantrell with contributions by Lena Cho, Brian Davis, Matthew Seibert, Xun Liu, and Marantha Dawkins

21 A Self-Critique of Landscape Architecture in Climate Communication - Samantha Solano

22 Surge Barrier Impact Assessment Using Digital Twin Performance Analytics in Galveston Island, Texas - Galen Newman and Zhenhang Cai

23 Restoring for Resilience through Natural Channel Design - Jessica Canfield and Tim Keane

24 Spatial Imaginaries and the Humanization of Green Recovery - Carl A. Smith

25 Climate Stories: The Ongoing and the Unfinished - Roberto J. Rovira

26 Before the After: Representing Climate Actions in the Age of AI - Zihao Zhang and Shurui Zhang

27 Climate Action in Isometrics, Transects, and Atmospheres - Fadi Masoud

28 From Data Points to Dynamic Spatial Experience: Immersive Design Speculations for the Rail Corridor in Singapore - Pia Fricker

29 Visualizing Climate Action: Predictors of the Unpredictable - B. Cannon Ivers

30 Afterword - Nadia Amoroso

Bibliography

Index

This book provides an in-depth overview of graphic and visual communication styles for conveying climate change and climate action within the landscape architectural profession and in academia.The book features visualizations of climate adaptation and resilience, developed by award-winning landscape architects and academics from Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, TheFinland, South Africa, Singapore, and China. Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, ltaly, France, Representing Landscapes: Visualizing Climate Action illustrates the imaginative ways in which climateaction and climate resilient concepts are visually presented, communicated, and perceived. The bookwill be especially valuable for students and practitioners in landscape architecture, urban planning, and related fields to understand how to visually capture climate change issues and design solutions, and to deliver this message to the public.

This book provides an in-depth overview of graphic and visual communication styles for conveying climate change and climate action within the landscape architectural profession and in academia.The book features visualizations of climate adaptation and resilience, developed by award-winning landscape architects and academics from Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, TheFinland, South Africa, Singapore, and China. Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, ltaly, France, Representing Landscapes: Visualizing Climate Action illustrates the imaginative ways in which climateaction and climate resilient concepts are visually presented, communicated, and perceived. The bookwill be especially valuable for students and practitioners in landscape architecture, urban planning, and related fields to understand how to visually capture climate change issues and design solutions, and to deliver this message to the public.