Making urban design teaching more permeable to regional green infrastructure: an urban design studio experiment

This paper discusses aspects of urban design teaching that restrict its permeability to green infrastructure concepts and regional planning instruments. Through an experiment with the urban design studio 'Designing the Trama Verde Azul (TVA)', it presents the experience of studio teaching...

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Published inLandscape research Vol. 48; no. 4; pp. 477 - 487
Main Author de Freitas, Daniel Medeiros
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Abingdon Routledge 19.05.2023
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects
Design
green blue infrastructure
Green infrastructure
Infrastructure
Metropolitan areas
metropolitan planning
Permeability
Regional planning
the Belo Horizonte Metropolitan Region
Trama Verde Azul
Urban design teaching
Urban planning
urban projects
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Summary:This paper discusses aspects of urban design teaching that restrict its permeability to green infrastructure concepts and regional planning instruments. Through an experiment with the urban design studio 'Designing the Trama Verde Azul (TVA)', it presents the experience of studio teaching related to the regional planning of the Belo Horizonte Metropolitan Region in line with green infrastructure concepts. This paper highlights that the viability of experiments of this kind is determined by (i) the proximity between community and environmental demands, (ii) planning and project scale articulation, (iii) place specificity, (iv) interdisciplinary dialogue, (iv) social inclusion, and (v) urban forms determined by connectivity, access to nature, and multi-functionality.
ISSN:0142-6397
1469-9710
DOI:10.1080/01426397.2021.1875204