"It's getting hot in here": The latest issue of Landscape Review
The latest edition of Lincoln University’s journal Landscape Review has just been published with Dr Wendy Walls, a Lecturer in Landscape Architecture at the University of Melbourne, in the editor’s chair.
The full issue of the journal, titled ‘Heat!’, can be accessed here. For an article on the previous edition, published in May under the title ‘Landscapes and Seascapes of Connectivity in Moana Oceania’ visit here.
Sun setting between buildings in Melbourne’s Docklands precinct (image by Wendy Walls, 2019)
This is an extract from Wendy’s foreword:
The world is estimated to heat 2.7 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial average by 2100. The impact of just a few degrees will be vast. Expect hotter cities and changing weather, higher energy consumption, human health effects and even more fundamental questions about how we spend time outdoors…
This special issue of Landscape Review looks to heat as a question for design at the intersections of environment and culture, physical space and lived experience. The collection of papers offers a range of perspectives on landscape architecture design and the complications of collaborating in this heating world – from responding to the material impacts of heat on plant communities, to how we work with fluctuating thermal conditions…
Whether we mitigate or adapt, working with the diverse effects of heat will be core to the future of landscape architecture. The papers in this special issue offer valuable ideas and methods in support of navigating this uncertain future.
Research-Informed Articles:
Fields of potential: recovering hidden Chains of Ponds in a rapidly urbanising landscape Penny Allan, Martin Bryant, Peter Ridgeway and Andrew Toland
Landscape and Urban Design for improved urban microclimate Silvia Tavares and Jiawei Fu
Turning up the Heat: Reflecting on a decade of teaching landscape climate design Wendy Walls and Jillian Walliss
Cooling strategies using thermal alliesthesia: a complementary approach to enhancing greenway walking comfort Yanhan Li, Liang Li, Wenqing Wang, Langxi Yang and Gillian Lawson
The Future of a cemetery in a warming climate Wendy Walls
A selection of articles written by Wendy Walls for LAA’s Australian counterpart Landscape Australia can be read here.