Landscape Urbanism Reader

Name: Landscape Urbanism Reader
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ISBN: 9781568984391

ISBN-10: 1568984391

ISBN-13: 9781568984391

Edition: 2006

Authors: Charles Waldheim, Chales Waldheim

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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. In The Landscape Urbanism Reader Charles Waldheim who is at the forefront of this new movement has 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 world including James Corner, Linda Pollak, Alan Berger, Pierre B langer, Julia Czerniak, and more capture the origins, the contemporary milieu, and the aspirations of this…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Publication date: 6/8/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.08" wide x 8.98" long x 0.81" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Terra fluxus



Landscape as urbanism



The emergence of landscape urbanism



An art of instrumentality : thinking through landscape urbanism



Vision in motion : representing landscape in time



Looking back at landscape urbanism : speculations on site



Constructed ground : questions of scale



From theory to resistance : landscape urbanism in Europe



Landscapes of infrastructure



Urban highways and the reluctant public realm



Drosscape



Landscapes of exchange : re-articulating site



Synthetic surfaces



Public works practice