ABSTRACT
Ulleval Hageby represents an important part of Oslo's urban history and development, and stands as an example of an early attempt at landscape urbanism flavoured with a strong component of naturalism derived from the picturesque. Contemporary European landscape urbanism is an attempt to bring concern with design back to the forefront of landscape architecture and thereby overcome the diminishment of design brought about by the triumph of a positivistic formulation of landscape ecology over the last 30-40 years. Landscape design has become important again as urbanists realize that the process of urban diffusion has made it difficult, and counter-productive, to identify places in architectural terms, that is, by the design and arrangement of buildings. In the case of Ulleval Hageby, there is much stronger identification with nature in landscape design, which is logical since this is the predominant Anglo-American tradition and formed the most important influence on Ulleval Hageby.
