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• Title:Landscape as urbanism : a general theory / Charles Waldheim.
  
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• Author/Creator:Waldheim, Charles, author.
  
• Published/Created:Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2016]
  

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  • Location: c.1  Temporarily shelved at MAA LIBRARY (IKB) reserve collectionWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: SB472.7 .W33 2016
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Urban landscape architecture.
  City planning.
  
• Description:ix, 205 pages ; 25 cm
  
• 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"-- Provided by publisher.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780691167909 hardcover
  0691167907 hardcover
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: One. Claiming Landscape as Urbanism
  Two. Autonomy, Indeterminacy, Self-Organization
  Three. Planning, Ecology, and the Emergence of Landscape
  Four. Post-Fordist Economies and Logistics 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
  Nine. Claiming Landscape as Architecture.