Innate terrain : Canadian landscape architecture / edited by Alissa North ; with a foreword by Ron Williams.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

North, Alissa, editor.

Williams, Ron, 1942- writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Landscape architecture--Canada.

Landscape architecture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (398 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2022]

Summary:

Innate Terrain surveys landscape architecture from across Canada, documenting the inspiring breadth of contemporary projects.

Contents:

Cover

Half-Title Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

List of Illustrations

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Consequent of the Land

PART ONE: NATIVE LAND: Physical-Human-Geographical Regions / Land Use / Land Claims / Land Management

1 Collaboration with the Keepers of Traditional Knowledge

2 Nouveaux Paysages: Contemporary Installations by Canadian Landscape Architects

3 Resolve: Negotiation and Implementation of Land Claims

4 Landscapes of Culture: Inuit Traditional Knowledge Applied

5 Working in the Wild: Landscape Architecture in Canada's National Parks

PART TWO: TRUE NORTH: Regionalism / Critical Regionalism / Resources / Cultural-Biological Resources

6 Nature

7 The Power of Local in East Coast Landscapes

8 L'anarchie resplendissante - Resplendent Anarchy: Towards a Quebec Regionalism

9 Wide Open Space: Towards a Phenomenology for Prairie Landscape Architecture

PART THREE: FAR AND WIDE: Cities / Megalopolises / Urbanity / Urban Conurbations / Urban Ecology

10 Technology-Driven Shift in the Digital Representation of Landscape Architecture

11 Landscape Verified as Infrastructure: Toronto's Waterfront Transformation

12 The Right Tree in the Right Place

13 Supernatural: An Account of Vancouver's Post-Industrial Landscape

14 Urbanization and Large Canadian Parks in the Nineteenth Century and Today

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: North, Alissa Innate Terrain

ISBN:

9781487527235

OCLC:

1334482643