Per Berg

Stockholm

Areas of interest
Resilient urban, rural and local community development. Ecologically adapted construction, technology and living. Futures studies on renewable energy, biological-and ecocycle technology, resource efficient and social transportation. Sustainable agriculture in regional-, local- and community scales. Blue-green fractal infrastructure. Pre-conditions for the dense-, green- and spacious pedestrian-speed city. Resilient, complex and contextual local areas’ physical, economic, biological, organisational, social, cultural and aesthetic resources.
Teaching
I teach at all the five years of the landscape architecture program. I have especially built two popular master-level courses at SLU. The first is the Landscape Project Studio – about the pre-conditions in the landscape for establishing resilient communities and infrasystems. The second is a new master course at SLU:s and Uppsala University’s joint master program in Sustainable Develoment: Interdisciplinary Practice. I also supervise Swedish and International students and PhD-students.
Research and development projects
I am involved in three Research Projects: Functional Density where I am leading the research about conditions for appropriate city planning: with integrated built-up areas, traffic, parks, squares, commerce and culture; Resilient Citylands – where we study modern cities with appropriate rural functions and modern rural areas integrated with urban functions; a study about Lawn – as a cultural and ecological phenomenon. I am the project leader since 1988 for the model area Hågaby – a resilient citylands area – planned and built according to the United Nation’s Habitat Agenda