CONTENTS Foreword 6 Living entities 8 Landscape as a system, city as landscape 26 Planning:squaringthecircle 46 Landscape architects as agents of change 64 Global dangers-private oases? 78 German Landscape Architecture Prize 2009 Rehwaldt Landschaftsarchitekten -ULAP-Platz, Berlin 84 Davids|Terfruchte + Partner-Carl-Alexander-Park, Baesweiler 92 Commendations : relais landschaftsarchitekten-Maselakepark, Berlin102 WES & Partner- Reemtsma Park, Hamburg Station C23- Dessau landscape corridor development concept 104 BW& P Landschaftsarchitekten -Rheinsberg waterfront promenade 106 terra.nova Landschaftsarchitektur-Schmalkalden's old town 108 Thomanek Duquesnoy Boemans-Finsterwalde castle garden110 TOPOTEK i -Outdoor facilities for a day-care centre, Berlin 112 The Special Prize for Domestic Gardens : Rainer Schmidt Landschaftsarchitekten -Villa garden,St. Gilgen114 Resistance to gardens116 Peter Joseph Lenne Prize 2008 The Lenne competition130 The results 131 Future opportunities in landscape architecture The thoughts of Lenne Prizewinners 134 Looking back: IBAEmscher Park 148 German Landscape Architecture Prize 2009 162 About bdla and the authors 164 About the sponsors of the publication 168 Index of names and projects 170-172 Index of places 174-175 Illustration credits 176