Topos

June 27, 2023
The International Review of Landscape Architecture and Urban Design – focuses on landscape architecture as well as architecture and urban planning. It sees itself as an interdisciplinary think tank, addressing the challenges urban areas will face in future. The professional magazine strives to inspire planning practitioners, urban experts and professionals who shape the cities of tomorrow. Every issue of the quarterly published periodical is dedicated to a different topic and deals with a broad array of projects and planning work in countries all over the world. Renowned urbanists, landscape architects and pioneers in other disciplines discuss their views and answers to these and other questions, providing the reader with a variety of different perspectives and introduce them to cutting-edge research in their fields.

The topic of climate protection is omnipresent. It is about nothing less than saving our planet and thus our livelihoods. It is often forgotten that this basis of life has already been destroyed for millions of people. These people set out in search of a new future and often end up in the world's major cities. How are these cities dealing with the increasing number of climate refugees? Are there working concepts to develop new living spaces for these refugees in the already overcrowded big cities? Issue 123 of topos tries to answer these and many other urgent questions, sheds light on the background of climate migration and tries to look into the future of refugee movements. With the help of a photographer living there, we also take an exclusive look into the daily life and fates in the largest refugee camp in the world – Kutupalong in Bangladesh. Climate flight seems to be an issue that is still far away for many of us. But in the future, even in previously safe climate strongholds such as Europe, we will have to be prepared for areas becoming uninhabitable due to drought, floods or even a combination of both factors, and people having to leave their homes. Get a free preview of the current issue of topos here: https://shop.georg-media.de/topos-123/