The landscape urbanism reader

The landscape urbanism reader

by Waldheim, Charles

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''With populations decentralizing and cities sprawling ever-outward, twenty-first-century urban planners are challenged by the need to organize not just people but space itself. Hence a new architectural discourse has emerged: landscape urbanism.InThe Landscape Urbanism Reader Charles Waldheimwho is at the forefront of this new movementhas assembled the definitive collection of essays by many of the field's top practitioners. Fourteen essays written by leading figures across a range of disciplines …

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  • Full title :The landscape urbanism reader / Charles Waldheim, editor.

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''With populations decentralizing and cities sprawling ever-outward, twenty-first-century urban planners are challenged by the need to organize not just people but space itself. Hence a new architectural discourse has emerged: landscape urbanism.InThe Landscape Urbanism Reader Charles Waldheimwho is at the forefront of this new movementhas assembled the definitive collection of essays by many of the field's top practitioners. Fourteen essays written by leading figures across a range of disciplines and from around the worldincluding James Corner, Linda Pollak, Alan Berger, Pierre Blanger, Julia Czerniak, and morecapture the origins, the contemporary milieu, and the aspirations of this relatively new field.The Landscape Urbanism Reader is an inspiring signal to the future of city making as well as an indispensablereference for students, teachers, architects, and urban planners.''--

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2006

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The Physical Object

  • Description:295 pages : : illustrations, cartes ; : 23 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:1568984391, 9781568984391
  • oclc:ocn172964108
  • LC Classification:SB472.7
  • Dewey Decimal:712.09173/2

Table of Contents

Terra fluxus / James Corner -- Landscape as urbanism / Charles Waldheim -- The emergence of landscape urbanism / Grahame Shane -- An art of instrumentality : thinking through landscape urbanism / Richard Weller -- Vision in motion : representing landscape in time / Christophe Girot -- Looking back at landscape urbanism : speculations on site / Julia Czerniak -- Constructed ground : questions of scale / Linda Pollak -- From theory to resistance : landscape urbanism in Europe / Kelly Shannon -- Landscapes of infrastructure / Elizabeth Mossop -- Urban highways and the reluctant public realm / Jacqueline Tatom -- Drosscape / Alan Berger -- Landscapes of exchange : re-articulating site / Clare Lyster -- Synthetic surfaces / Pierre Bélanger -- Public works practice / Chris Reed.

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Subjects

Aménagement du paysage Architecture du paysage architecture paysagère -- urbanisme Espaces verts Paysage urbain Urban landscape architecture urban landscapes

Writers

Waldheim, Charles

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