{"c_title":"[M0000.019100] Seminar on Landscape System Analysis","c_info":"3 credits | Lecture\/Seminar | Master | Dept. of Landscape Architecture","c_summary":"Landscape is a system of geology, soil, water, vegetation, wildlife, and land use - rural and urban. We can study landscape by taking these elements apart and see mutual relations as a system that has a structure in time and in space. It functions as an ecological system, because there is coherency between, for example, vegetation and soil, or water and cityscape. Recognizing coherency enforces spatial cognition. And when landscape is readable, it contributes to the sustainability of individuals and communities. Systematic analysis of landscape is therefore essential when planning for ecology and aiming for social, cultural, and psychological health. Students meet weekly with the teacher to study and discuss topics of Landscape System Analysis. As an input to the discussion students regularly prepare short introductions to selected themes."}