The Landscape Urbanism Reader

by Waldheim, Charles; Waldheim, Charles

• ISBN13: 9781568984391
• ISBN10: 1568984391
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-06-08
• Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press

Summary

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 relatively new Field. The Landscape Urbanism Reader is an inspiring signal to the future of city making as well as an indispensable reference for students, teachers, architects, and urban planners.

Author Biography

Charles Waldheim is the editor of numerous books on landscape urbanism and the associate dean and director of the Landscape Architecture Program at the University of Toronto.

Table of Contents

Terra fluxus	p. 21
Landscape as urbanism	p. 35
The emergence of landscape urbanism	p. 55
An art of instrumentality : thinking through landscape urbanism	p. 69
Vision in motion : representing landscape in time	p. 87
Looking back at landscape urbanism : speculations on site	p. 105
Constructed ground : questions of scale	p. 125
From theory to resistance : landscape urbanism in Europe	p. 141
Landscapes of infrastructure	p. 163
Urban highways and the reluctant public realm	p. 179
Drosscape	p. 197
Landscapes of exchange : re-articulating site	p. 219
Synthetic surfaces	p. 239
Public works practice	p. 267
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