Urban Ecology
Urban dwellers largely go through life experiencing the exterior environments around them. Within this experience, certain places are more likely to be populated in comparison to others, These tend to be the spaces often interfered with or designed by humans. However, there is generally another ignored kind, the kind which is abandoned, industries, railways, vacant land etc.
Nurtured Pedigree
Over time, a certain kind of pedigree has been put into place, this is the nurtured pedigree. These have been spanning long before the Mughal gardens and have continued into the present-day lawns and landscaping. Its survival is dependent on high-energy inputs. Manicured lawns, flowerbeds etc come under this category.
Nurtured/designed landscapes have been put in place for a while and it stems from our ancestors.
It showcases symmetry, balance, and the authority of the ruling kingdom or man over other men or nature. In the current time landscape designers and landscape architects are often designated to curate such a space.
Despite its mass adoption and aspirations for the masses to have such a landscape, it has 2 major flaws.
- It is independent of place N0
- Its survival is dependent on high-energy inputs
Fortuitous Landscape
Landscape not happening by choice, but rather by chance. The weeds through the cracks of the pavement, flooded places left after the rain, forgotten industries etc. They provide shade and flowering to wildlife at no cost or care against gasoline, sterile and maintained landscape of men.
Although beneficial in many aspects, it grows organically and cannot be curated to highlight shadows or merge a setting with precision. It is also unplanned and haphazard.
Humanized Landscape
In dense urban settlements inadvertently fortuitous landscapes find their place as organically as theme humans create their own landscapes between them.
In adaptation models, cultures adapt to the resources of their environments, with different adaptations creating cultural differences. They then instead of sitting into ecological constants, model things around them. It becomes a physical record of intentionality.
