The Landscape Urbanism ReaderPrinceton Architectural Press, 8 giu 2006 - 295 pagine 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. In The 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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INTRODUCTION | 13 |
Terra Fluxus | 21 |
Landscape as Urbanism | 35 |
The Emergence of Landscape Urbanism | 55 |
Thinking Through Landscape Urbanism | 69 |
Representing Landscape in Time | 87 |
Looking Back at Landscape Urbanism Speculations on Site | 105 |
Questions of Scale | 125 |
Landscapes of Infrastructure | 163 |
Urban Highways and the Reluctant Public Realm | 179 |
Drosscape | 197 |
Rearticulating Site | 219 |
Synthetic Surfaces | 239 |
Public Works Practice | 267 |
CONTRIBUTORS | 288 |
ILLUSTRATION CREDITS | 290 |
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