Spatial Change and Planning

Specifik themes

Specific themes in the research comprise urban and rural lifestyles and their implications for planning, development of new planning tools for rural areas, climate adaptation, governance of urban and regional development, development and transformation of urban and rural districts, the multifunctional role of agriculture and rural landscapes, terrestrial habitat monitoring, land use / land cover studies, land use modeling, remote sensing of terrestrial environments. We run projects in Denmark, Europe and in developing countries.

Methods and collaboration

Methods for spatial analysis such as landscape character assessment, mapping of ecosystem services and landscape functions and urban environment and urban life play a significant role in studies of spatial development and human use of the environment. Other projects deal with management processes such as spatial planning, governance, involvement of citizens, and not least planning innovation. We often work together with other institutions and actors in landscapes and cities.

Ongoing projects

• Regionale landskabs strategier

• ESPON Digiplan – Evaluating Spatial Planning Practices with Digital Plan Data

• Livskvalitet i yderområder og landdistrikter

• Byerne og det stigende havvand

• Pathways to water resilient South African cities (PaWS)

• Levedygtige landsbyer – version 2.0

• Frivillige i naturforvaltningen

• The cooling effect of urban green-blue space in different climate zones

• CONTRACTS 2.0 - Co-design of novel contract models for innovative agri-environmental-climate measures and for valorisation of environmental public goods

• Simulating Public Life in Space and Time

• Københavnsegnens Grønne Områder (se pressemeddelelse)

• WaterProtect, EU Horizon 2020

• Sædskifteprojektet

• VIVA PLAN

• Drone Imaginaries and Communities. Understanding Drones through Aesthetics (See: DFF project database)

• Drone Aesthetic Experience and Co-creation – a preproject (See Art Foundation funding : tildelinger)

• Nature, Landscape Climate project

• Spurring INnovations for Forest ECosystem SERvices in Europe (SINCERE)

• Broagerland 3.0 – pilotprojekt som frilandsby

• SMARTer Greener Cities

• Planning with youth

PhD projects

• Strategy Making in Danish Rural Landscapes: Theoretical and practical developments in collaborative planning for landscapes at a regional scale (Lotte Ruegaard Petersen)

• Research on residents’ preference to urbanized landscapes in rural construction and planning (Gaoyaun Yang)

• Urban Gardens as Drivers for Liveability and Community Coherence – a case study addressing the dynamic relationsship between landscape architecture, culture and people (Anne Madsbjerg)

• ‘Child Inclusive Public Space for Liveable city’ (Peng Ding)

• Community strategies and local planning approaches in the Arctic (Leneisja Jungsberg)

• Urban regeneration and social networks (Tongyun Du)

• Planning for the water sensitive city in Dar es Salaam (Martha Mkupasi)

• Consent-making in Participatory Landscape Architecture (Anne Cunningham)

• Influence of the socio-economic status on the public open space preferences (Nevroz Cinar Özdil)

• Big Cities – ’Quiet’ Places – tracing material and immaterial qualities of urban space (Hanne Wiemann Nielsen)

• Envisioning public participation in landscape corridor planning in China with European experience (Haiyun Xu)

Recently completed projects

• Water Resilient Green Cities for Africa

• Metropolitan Copenhagen Green Space – Historical development and Management

• H2020 URBAN-WASTE – Urban Strategies for Waste Management in Tourist Cities

• DNMARK

• Cultivating Public Spaces: Urban agriculture as a basis for human flourishing and sustainability transition in Norwegian cities

• Den moderne landsby i en ny rolle: erhvervsudvikling

• Flygtninge som ressource i mindre byer. Se videnblade

• International transformation for leapfrogging to water sensitive city: The case of Addis Ababa (Liku Workalemahu)

• Re-humanising Urban Public Space – Unfolding the influence of socio-cultural norms on the use, experience, and provision of the sidewalk in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (Mohammed Almahmood)

• Analysis of ecosystem service supply, trade-offs and social-ecological interactions in European wood-pastures (Mario Torralba Viorreta)

• The cooling effect of urban green infrastructure: From how to where (Zhaowu Yu)

Network

• NATURA
• Network for Research on Drones researchondrones
• ThinkChina
• CBS

• Landscape strategy making as a pathway to policy integration and involvement of stakeholders: examples from a Danish action research programme. / Kristensen, Lone Søderkvist; Primdahl, Jørgen. In: Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 2019.
• Emerging digital plan data – New research perspectives on planning practice and evaluation. / Fertner, Christian; Christensen, Andreas Aagaard; Andersen, Peter Stubkjær; Olafsson, Anton Stahl; Præstholm, Søren; Caspersen, Ole H.; Grunfelder, Julien. In: Geografisk Tidsskrift/Danish Journal of Geography, Vol. 119, No. 1, 2019, p. 6-16.
• Using landscape scenarios to improve local nitrogen management and planning. / Andersen, P. S.; Andersen, E.; Graversgaard, M.; Christensen, A. A.; Vejre, H.; Dalgaard, T. In: Journal of Environmental Management, Vol. 232, 2019, p. 523-530.
• Planning strategically in light of rural decline: Experiences from Denmark. / Tietjen, Anne; Jørgensen, Gertrud. Routledge Companion to Rural Planning. ed. / Nick Gallent; Mark Scott. Routledge, 2019. (Critical Concepts in Built Environment).
• Changing social capital under impact of urban renewal: a case study of Chongqing, China. / Du, Tongyun; Fertner, Christian; Vejre, Henrik. 2019. Abstract from AESOP YA Conference 2019, Darmstadt, Germany.
• Human-centred public urban space: exploring how the ‘re-humanisation’ of cities as a universal concept has been adopted and is experienced within the socio-cultural context of Riyadh. / Almahmood, Mohammed; Gulsrud, Natalie Marie; Schulze, Oliver; Carstensen, Trine Agervig; Jørgensen, Gertrud. In: Urban Research and Practice, 2019.
• Emergence and Evolution of the Urban Public Open Spaces of Ankara within the Urban Development History: 1923 to Present. / Cinar Özdil, Nevruz; Vejre, Henrik. In: Journal of Planning History, 2019.
• Spatiotemporal patterns and characteristics of remotely sensed region heat islands during the rapid urbanization (1995–2015) of Southern China. / Yu, Zhaowu; Yao, Yawen; Yang, Gaoyuan; Wang, Xiangrong; Vejre, Henrik. In: Science of the Total Environment, Vol. 674, 2019, p. 242-254.
• A Systematic Comparison of Cultural and Ecological Landscape Corridors in Europe. / Xu, Haiyun; Plieninger, Tobias; Primdahl, Jørgen. In: Land, Vol. 8, No. 3, 41, 2019.
• Examining urban water management practices – Challenges and possibilities for transitions to sustainable urban water management in Sub-Saharan cities. / Herslund, Lise; Mguni, Patience. In: Sustainable Cities and Society, Vol. 48, 101573, 2019.
• Street Fights in Copenhagen: Bicycle and Car Politics in a Green Mobility City. / Henderson, Jason; Gulsrud, Natalie Marie. 1 ed. London: Routledge, 2019. 224 p. (Advances in Urban Sustainability).
• Resonance and Transcendence of a Bodily Presence: How a filmic mapping of non-visual, aural and bodily relations in space can strengthen the sensory dimension in (landscape) architectural design. / Petersen, Rikke Munck; Farsø, Mads. Architecture filmmaking. ed. / Igea Troiani; Hugh Campbell. 1. ed. Intellect Ltd., 2019.
• Nature-based integration of immigrants in Europe - a review. / Gentin, Sandra; Pitkänen, Kati; Chondromatidou, Anna Maria; Præstholm, Søren; Dolling, Ann; Palsdottir, Anna Maria. I: Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, Bind 43, 126379, 2019.
• Big cities – ‘quiet places’: tracing relationships between material and immaterial qualities of urban spaces. / Nielsen, Hanne Wiemann; Jørgensen, Gertrud; Braae, Ellen Marie. In: SPOOL, Vol. 3, No. 1, 2, 2016, p. 67-82.

Forskergruppen bidrager til undervisningen på Landskabsarkitektuddannelsen, kandidatuddannelsen i Nature Management, bacheloruddannelsen i Naturressourceforvaltning og i mindre omfang til andre studieretninger. Vi afholder desuden ph.d.-kurser.

• Plan og Design 2 (BA)
• Byplan studio, Strategi og design 1 (BA)
• Byplan Studio, Strategi og design 2 (BA)
• Bysociologi – menneske, sted og by (BA)
• Håndværk og æstetik i landskabsarkitektur (BA)
• Naturressourcer; Forvaltning og Økonomi (BA)
• Natur- og Parkforvaltning (BA)
• Projekt-og skriveværksted i by-og landskabsstudier (BA)
• Planlægning i det åbne land (MA)
• Rural Landscapes: Methods and approaches in policy-making (MA)
• Thematic Course II A – Rural Landscape Management and Planning (MA)
• Temakursus ll B: Rurale landskaber - Forvaltning og Planlægning (MA)
• Motivation and pro-environmental behaviour (MA)
• Landscape and Restoration Ecology (MA)
• Theories of Urban Design (MA)
• Urban Forestry Urban Greening (MA)
• Transformation Studio (MA)
• Urbanism Studio (MA)
• Landscape film (MA)
• Nature Perception (MA)