Title & Author:

The landscape urbanism reader / Charles Waldheim, editor.

Publication:

New York : Princeton Architectural Press, ©2006.

Description:

295 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Terra fluxus / James Corner -- Landscape as urbanism / Charles Waldheim -- The emergence of landscape urbanism / Grahame Shane -- An art of instrumentality : thinking through landscape urbanism / Richard Weller -- Vision in motion : representing landscape in time / Christophe Girot -- Looking back at landscape urbanism : speculations on site / Julia Czerniak -- Constructed ground : questions of scale / Linda Pollak -- From theory to resistance : landscape urbanism in Europe / Kelly Shannon -- Landscapes of infrastructure / Elizabeth Mossop -- Urban highways and the reluctant public realm / Jacqueline Tatom -- Drosscape / Alan Berger -- Landscapes of exchange : re-articulating site / Clare Lyster -- Synthetic surfaces / Pierre Bélanger -- Public works practice / Chris Reed.

Summary:

Charles Waldheim has assembled the definitive collection of essays by many of the field's top practitioners - capturing the origins, the contemporary milieu, and the aspirations of this relatively new field. An indispensable reference for students, teachers, architects, and urban planners.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Cover
Table of contents

ISBN:

1568984391 (alk. paper)
9781568984391
9781568989495
1568989490

Subject:

Urban landscape architecture.
Paysage urbain.
urban landscapes.
Landschaftsplanung
Landschaftsgestaltung
Stadtplanung
Arquitectura urbana del paisaje.

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Added entries:

Waldheim, Charles.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 246032
Call No.: BIB 175638
Status: Available