It has become conventional to think of urbanism and landscape as opposing one anothermdash;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 fields 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.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. MagnificoBy Anna C.Scritto benissimo. bella storia raccontata bene. E da un po che leggo i libri di Greta Cerretti e trovo sempre molto piacere.
