Main entry:

Waldheim, Charles, author.

Title & Author:

Landscape as urbanism : a general theory / Charles Waldheim.

Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2016]

Description:

ix, 205 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : From figure to field -- Claiming landscape as urbanism -- Autonomy, indeterminacy, self-organization -- Planning, ecology, and the emergence of landscape -- Post-Fordist economies and logistics landscape -- Urban crisis and the origins of landscape -- Urban order and structural change -- Agrarian urbanism and the aerial subject -- Aerial representation and airport landscape -- Claiming landscape as architecture -- Conclusion : From landscape to ecology.

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.

ISBN:

9780691167909 (hardback ; acid-free paper)
0691167907 (hardback ; acid-free paper)
9780691238302 paperback
0691238308 paperback

Subject:

Urban landscape architecture.
City planning.
Paysage urbain.
urban landscapes.
ARCHITECTURE Landscape.
ARCHITECTURE Urban & Land Use Planning.
ARCHITECTURE General.
Architecture and Planning.
Architektur
Landschaftsplanung
Stadtlandschaft
Stadtplanung
Städtebau
Verstädterung
Paesaggio

Holdings:

Location: Library main 292940
Call No.: BIB 237514
Copy: 1
Status: Available

Location: Library main 315255
Call No.: 315255
Copy: 2
Status: Available