Transdisciplinary Action Research in Landscape Architecture and Planning: Prospects and Challenges

摘要: reconciling local plural design projects with the exigen-cies of regional and global contexts in which they are embedded often substantial (Deming Palmer 2005; Thering Chanse 2011). As geographical organizational scope action- oriented research expands, complexities facilitating participation coordinating efforts among multiple stakeholders representing different community societal sectors increase; as does potential for encountering diver-gent confl icting perceptions about alternative land uses values (Bowns 2011; Doble King McNally Furthermore, challenges estab-lishing sustaining effective cross- disciplinary com-munication scholars practitioners trained diverse fi elds, working across at scales community, become more daunting focus their work shifts from locally delimited