Telling the Story of a Landscape Plan Online Literature: Representing Landscape Planning

In many countries, landscape planning is under pressure from many sides – many neo-liberal and conservative governments consider it as an unnecessary restriction to the market, many stakeholders and members of the public consider landscape planning as technocratic and without relevance for their everyday life. While it is a political issue to address ideological opposition to landscape planning, planners can improve understandability and transparency of landscape plans. As demonstrated by von Haaren et al. (2005), interactive landscape vis- ualization embedded in participatory processes can facilitate understandability and accessi- bility of landscape plans. This paper will further develop the approach of using interactive online maps and add multimedia and storytelling techniques to better communicate the aes- thetic component of landscape and to increase the acceptability and accessibility of landscape plans. The European Landscape Convention confirms the importance of involving commu- nities in planning, designing and managing our landscape resource.

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