Landscape Architecture and sustainable Development - A Model for designing Parks and Gardens

The project's aim is to develop a basis for the improvement of landscape archtiectural projects in Lower Austria. Based on the ongoing discourse related to sustainability in landscape architectural processes and projects, and the analysis of selected public parks and private gardens, design qualities are eleborated, which enhance the ecological, social and economic dimension of sustainability. For data aquisition and data analysis, space-related and sociological methods are used. Based on the results, a guideline is elaborateted which provides a basis for decision makers and planers, during the process of a landscape architectural project.