Landscape urbanism and its discontents : dissimulating the sustainable city / edited by Andrés Duany and Emily Talen.

Title & Author:

Landscape urbanism and its discontents : dissimulating the sustainable city / edited by Andrés Duany and Emily Talen.

Publication:

Description:

xiii, 315 pages, 22 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Reminiscences -- 2. Landscape and the city -- 3. Landscape urbanism, new urbanism and the environmental paradox of cities -- 4. The metropolis versus the city -- 5. The social apathy of landscape urbanism -- 6. A general theory of ecological urbanism -- 7. The zombies of Gund Hall go forth and eat America's brains -- 8. Landscape urbanism : supplement or substitute? -- 9. Why dogs should not eat dogs -- 10. Absorbing landscape urbanism -- 11. Art vitiating life -- 12. Marginality and the prospect for urbanism in the post-ecological city -- 13. Adaptive urbanism -- 14. Talk of urbanism -- 15. Articulating landscape urbanism -- 16. Landscape ecology and its urbanism -- 17. Urbanism : new, landscape, or otherwise : the case for complementarity -- 18. A critique of the high line : landscape urbanism and the global south.

Summary:

Landscape Urbanism and its Discontents explores the debate around two competing paradigms. Landscape Urbanism is conceived as ecological in terms of natural processes, while New Urbanism engages ecology in terms of sociocultural processes. In this collection of essays, influential urban theorists delve into the tension between the two perspectives. While there should be significant overlap between Landscape Urbanism and New Urbanism, the former has assumed prominence amongst environmental administrators and critical theorists, whereas the latter has approached paradigmatic status in the market and among planning professionals. Given that both these power bases are at the forefront of sustainable urban design, the analysis -- and potential reconciliation -- offered by these essays may help catalyze a resolution to the various crises besetting the new century.

ISBN:

9780865717404 (pbk.)
0865717400 (pbk.)
(ebk.)
9781550925364

Subject:

Urban landscape architecture.
City planning.
Sustainable development.
Paysage urbain.
Développement durable.
urban landscapes.
sustainable development.

Added entries:

Duany, Andres.
Talen, Emily, 1958-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 284529
Call No.: BIB 223506
Status: Available

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