1. Resilient Citylands - background for a proposed new SLU University Master level Course in the Baltic Sea Region Per G Berg & Maria Ignatieva per.berg@slu.se Maria.ignatieva@slu.se

2. Our (SLU LA) call: ”The Renewal and Tuning of LA teaching programs in the BSR region is affected – beside curriculum issues - by a changing world”

3. Why we try to integrate RCL in LA The global environmental-, resources- and health crises today have impact on all science and all practical implementation. Landscape architecture is successively broadening – from green details to strategic planning Landscape architecture is a making science particularly suited for the planning, design and management of sustainable landscapes

4. Transformative trends for rural areas and communities Rural communities are urbanized Complete communities Rural land is franchized Local production restored Rural areas depopulated Repopulation of density immigrants Change factors Land prices are increasing Higher value for food and bioenergy production Environmental problems boost transformation to more local food Comprehensive planning goes from urban to inter-urban to urban and rural planning Result: A new rural – urban conception

5. Transformative trends for urban areas and communities Urbanisation continues Sustainable Cities development Densification intensifies Green structure planning grows Traffic problems culminate Green pedestrian speed city Change factors Increasing Health costs boost development of the healthy city Increasing rich and poor segregation boosts the mixed-use green city Increasing environmental effects boosts the emergencs of ecosystems services cities Increasing local food values boosts urban agriculture Result: A New Emerging Green Urban-rural city is developing

6. What happens when an urban perspective of urban- rural meet a rural perspective of rural urban? We call it CITYLANDS

7. Resilience = The ability of a living system to withstand changes over long time-periods through resistance and flexible adjustment. Citylands = Human settlements functionally integrated with green/blue structures in a range of scales (Urban-rural systems). Resilient Citylands = Resistent and flexible human settlements integrated with green/blue structures in a range of scales which can prevail over forseeable generations. Simple Definitions of Resilient Citylands

8. Cityland Transformation Rural-UrbanUrban-Rural Systems 2012 2022 2042 Renewable Energy Citylands Traffic Structure Citylands Blue-Green Structure Citylands Socio-Cultural Citylands Systems Economic Citylands