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Preface

As generally acknowledged, landscape architecture extends across numerous subject areas from heuristics, aesthetics, and sciences to statistical decision-making, technology, and arts. Landscape architecture ranges from small projects and details to global ecology and ecosystems. For this reason, the profession incorporates information from the social sciences, natural science, natural history, ecology, and the medical sciences. Often a good landscape architect is someone who is interested in many subjects and is able to integrate them thoughtfully. In this regard, landscape architecture, generally described as a multi-disciplinary field that incorporates several branches of knowledge, is perceived as a discipline able to promote the definition of land uses, thus enabling landscape alterations that might promote sustainable development, protect the environment, preserve natural and cultural

In fact, crossing a wide range of research domains and issues associated with landscape planning, design, and redevelopment, this book covers a large number of topics related to landscape architecture, assessing the impact of contemporary needs and constraints and landscape management strategies on planning, ecosystems, and landscape design. The book presents specific case studies representing a vast array of landscape planning and design projects that go beyond conventional practice, including not only a diverse amount of end uses but also multidisciplinary

As a landscape architect who then became an agronomic engineer with research interests deeply rooted in the field of sustainability, landscape planning, and development, the main goals of most of my research are directly connected to fitting landscape architecture as a tool to promote and assure that planning and design processes meet the needs and desires of contemporary life. All this, bearing in mind the comprehensive view of the different components of landscape architecture, acknowledging the need for an interrelated analysis of the ecologic, cultural, and socioeconomic issues in each and every single planning and design process.

**Luís Loures**

Portalegre, Portugal

Faculty of Fine Art and Design, Department of Architecture,

**Mustafa Ergen**

Siirt University, Siirt, Turkey

VALORIZA – Polytechnic Institute of Portalegre,

assets, and improve people's quality of life.

methodological approaches.
