Educational landscapes: Socio-spatial educational environments as resources for architecture and urban planning

Abstract

This article reflects on the concepts of “educational landscapes” and “socio-spatial educational environments” and how they can in-form the practice of architecture and urban planning for the promo-tion of a sustainable and balanced urban development. Following a brief conceptual discussion and presentation of case studies in Germany and Peru, it is recognized that space is an educational cat-egory inasmuch as education is a spatial category. In broad terms, the article concludes that, while progress has been made in the promotion and achievement of educational landscapes and socio-spatial educational environments, significant challenges remain to integrate them more decisively and substantively as valuable re-sources into architecture and urban planning practice and there-with to urban development processes.

Keywords

• educational landscapes
• socio-spatial educational en-vironments
• architecture
• urban planning
• urban development
• peru
• germany