ABSTRACT
The technical and computational potency of today’s information systems provide far more data than our ability to comprehend and analyse such information. Such volumes of data can also be confounding when developing an understanding of how to address urban problems through a landscape lens. Developing a landscape approach to policy decisions at a metropolitan scale requires clarity about what are the landscape values that you want to advocate for, evaluate and implement. Chapter 5 presents the challenges and opportunities for incorporating landscape theory into policies that don’t naturally fit into conventional landscape planning and management domains. It provides a summary of the ways landscapes have been conceptualised in theory and practice. It then identifies how landscape values can be mobilised in the decision making process.
