Rural Landscaping And Its Tools

Rural Landscaping And Its Tools is a book on urban planning and rural landscape theory and design practice by Czech architect , Maximilian Wittman and Tomas Dohnal, mapping the possibilities of interventions in the landscape and the laws that these interventions should follow.
The book was published by Academic Publishing CERM in 2022 and has 333 pages in Czech and 348 in English.
Summary
The core belief presented in the text is that the landscape is not a single author's work of art or an engineering "food machine", but a complex environment for the life of the inhabitants in the given natural conditions. At the same time, the way to live in a given landscape is developed evolutionarily, with sufficiently long feedback (all changes have always been tested by time, the appropriateness of the arrangement of functional areas in the landscape is determined only by their long-term use - the fulfillment of the function).
The text posits that not a professional, but the users of the landscape are its true creators. With a certain degree of exaggeration, that the more and faster "professionalism" is established in the landscape, the more mistakes "punishable by nature" are likely to be made.
The book distinguishes 4 sets of tools tha contribute to the rural landscaping: natural, economic, psychological and interactive.
The book focuses specifically on the rural landscape in Czechia, but its conclusions are relevant and applicable to landscapes globally, especially those with similar climatic and cultural conditions.
Structure
Chapter 1 is devoted to the methodological specifics of synthetically designing changes in the landscape.
Chapters 2 and 3 deal with the natural set of tools and their technologies.
Chapters 4 and 5 are focused on the economic system of tools and their technology.
Chapter 6 develops the theme of landscape composition and landscape character.
Chapters 7 and 8 describe the psychological set of tools and their technology with an emphasis on naming and fulfilling psychological expectations when creating a landscape.
Chapter 9 outlines the emergence of our cultural landscape.
Chapter 10 describes the stabilization of our rural landscape at a basic renewable energy level since the Middle Ages.
Chapter 11 describes the energy revolution (the use of non-renewable energy sources) and subsequent revolutions - industrial, chemical and globalization.
The appendix of the book consists of a description of the megatypes of European landscapes.<ref name=":0" />

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