Landscape as Urbanism : A General Theory / Charles Waldheim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Waldheim, Charles, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning.

Urban landscape architecture.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 p.)

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

It has become conventional to think of urbanism and landscape as opposing one another-or to think of landscape as merely providing temporary relief from urban life as shaped by buildings and infrastructure. But, driven in part by environmental concerns, landscape has recently emerged as a model and medium for the city, with some theorists arguing that landscape architects are the urbanists of our age. In Landscape as Urbanism, one of the field's pioneers presents a powerful case for rethinking the city through landscape.Charles Waldheim traces the roots of landscape as a form of urbanism from its origins in the Renaissance through the twentieth century. Growing out of progressive architectural culture and populist environmentalism, the concept was further informed by the nineteenth-century invention of landscape architecture as a "new art" charged with reconciling the design of the industrial city with its ecological and social conditions. In the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, as urban planning shifted from design to social science, and as urban design committed to neotraditional models of town planning, landscape urbanism emerged to fill a void at the heart of the contemporary urban project.Generously illustrated, Landscape as Urbanism examines works from around the world by designers ranging from Ludwig Hilberseimer, Andrea Branzi, and Frank Lloyd Wright to James Corner, Adriaan Geuze, and Michael Van Valkenburgh. The result is the definitive account of an emerging field that is likely to influence the design of cities for decades to come.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: From Figure to Field

One: Claiming Landscape as Urbanism

Two: Autonomy, Indeterminacy, Self-Organization

Three: Planning, Ecology, and the Emergence of Landscape

Four: Post-Fordist Economies and Logisitics Landscape

Five: Urban Crisis and the Origins of Landscape

Six: Urban Order and Structural Change

Seven: Agrarian Urbanism and the Aerial Subject

Eight: Aerial Representation and Airport Landscape

Conclusion: From Landscape to Ecology

Notes

Index

Credits

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

9781400880546

1400880548

OCLC:

930489579