The influence of the environmental and landscape values on the possible mitigation of the investment pressure

Abstract

The welfare growth causes the up-scaling of aspirations, needs and expectations concerning the living standards, in this of the quality of living space. There grows the social consciousness that satisfaction of such superficial needs can bring losses in the longer perspective, exceeding their immediate, often apparent advantages. The investment, spatial planning and urban design practice deliver examples of the inhabitants care for the environmental and landscape values, whereat often they concern the practical dimension of their living space, not only for the universal dimension of the environmental or climatic threats. This „practical thinking” about spatial values facilitates the initiation of ecological solutions within the transformations and the re-use of land. It moderates or mitigates the space appropriating processes and the investment pressure.