Inside Out or Outside In? —Rethinking Peri-urban Landscape Management

Abstract

As urban economies grow worldwide, and cities expand geographically, peri-urban management is being more widely recognized as a significant policy issue. At the same time however, new edge conditions are emerging within urban regions, due to economic re-structuring and retreat from areas at risk due to natural hazards associated with climate change. This paper reframes consideration of peri-urban landscape management to include intra-urban edge conditions, and examines the challenges and opportunities of urban edges as an emerging feature of 21st century urbanization. Drawing upon the case of Christchurch, New Zealand it argues for an approach that combines conventional spatial strategy with a values-based perspective. Adoption of a more explicit landscape based framework of peri-urban management will require a parallel commitment to the development of landscape scale partnerships that can provide long term continuity of vision and policy in urban edge situations.

Keywords

Peri-urban Landscape Management / Intra-urban edges / Christchurch / Governance Framework

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2014 Higher Education Press