Author(s)

Yiling Deng ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Waterloo, London, SW1E 8ST, UK

Corresponding Author

Yiling Deng

ABSTRACT

There is always intense discussion around the attitude on the landscape. In a nutshell, nowadays, designers and experts have different views to organize it, namely preservation, conservation, restoration, and invention. From my perspective, I think preservation type as the conservative, conservation and invention type as the radical, and the restoration is centrist. I will tend to the restoration, which stance is in the middle of preservation and conservation or invention. According to the context in the book "Park Ideals as Expressed through Preservation" preserved landscapes are over-focused on saving or recreating a certain landscape in that period but ignoring the process landscape evolution, as formalism. From the "Frederick Turner (Beyond Preservation: Restoring and Inventing Landscapes", inventionist ecology is trying to create a new ecosystem containing new landscape and even species, meanwhile, people protect the raw resource. The difference between conservation and invention in the landscape is that conservation is not stimulating natural form when building something but constructing new stuff based on the original circumstance. In this thesis, I would analyze this topic on waterways' restoration: wetland and river. The water resource is the origin of everything, even contains humans' civilization. But it is gradually degrading caused by nature itself and humanity. So this issue inspired me to an idea: what is the perfect status of each restoration, and when should people stop exploring and constructing in the reinstate natural process to return the liberty to nature.

KEYWORDS

Restoration, Nature, Liberty, History, Human, Wildlife, Vegetation, Society

CITE THIS PAPER

Yiling Deng, Desolated Water Landscapes' History and Future. Landscape and Urban Horticulture (2025) Vol. 7: 1-13. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/lsuh.2025.070101.

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