Ecological and self-sustaining cities -a systemic approach from the point of view of landscape planning disciplines

Abstract

Eco-urbanism involves a series of concepts and principles of planning, implementation and use of the elements of the system called City, generically called green technologies. These include: intelligent management of all urban utilities networks, wastedwater management and solid waste recycling systems andmanagement, passive energy building technology, clean energy technologies (solar, wind, hydropower or biogas technologies, etc.), rehabilitation and revitalization of depreciated or abandoned urban spaces, food and consumable objects production in a sustainable way.The present paper illustrates the importance of the fact that the city planning and the landscape planning involves knowledge applied from several areas listed above or not mentioned yet, which implies an overview of landscape architects onall these areas and the connections between them,both in territorial and urban planning, as well at the scale of the detailed landscape design.