Published in Scientific Papers. Series B, Horticulture, Vol. LXVIV, Issue 1
Written by Ina VLADIMIR (ASIMINEI), Mirela COJOCARIU
A modern city's landscape reflects the diversity and inconsistency of the processes that occur within it. The changing landscape of the city and its surroundings has become a common phenomenon as urban areas expand and technological capabilities for modeling nature develop. The interaction between the natural and artificial environments becomes more intense as urban development pressures the surrounding landscape. The city constantly expands its borders into neighboring territories, gradually diminishing natural potential and bringing more chaos than harmony to the landscape. In this chaos and rapid pace of modernization, attention has increasingly shifted to appearances at the expense of content. Urban spaces that did not align with external trends and influences were abandoned, leading to community fragmentation and a decline in authentic values and traditions. Using this concept as a starting point, the study aims to propose several landscape design approaches and appropriate solutions for rehabilitating degraded or abandoned urban spaces in Romania.
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