Landscape as Urbanism (eBook)

A General Theory

Charles Waldheim (Autor)

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2016
216 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8054-6 (ISBN)

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Charles Waldheim is the John E. Irving Professor and Chair of Landscape Architecture at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. He is the author of Constructed Ground, the editor of The Landscape Urbanism Reader and Case: Lafayette Park Detroit, and the coeditor of Stalking Detroit and Composite Landscapes, among other books.

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A definitive intellectual history of landscape urbanismIt 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 "e;new art"e; 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.2.2016
• Zusatzinfo: 158 b/w illus.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Architektur
• Schlagworte: Albrecht Altdorfer • Aldo Rossi • Alejandro Zaera-Polo • Alex MacLean • Ambivalence • Ancient monument • Andrea Branzi • Archigram • Art Institute of Chicago • Bernard Tschumi • Broadacre City • Brownfield land • Business card • Calvert Vaux • Case study • Charles Jencks • Civil Engineering • Claude Lorrain • conspicuous consumption • Dada • Dan Kiley • decentralization • De rerum natura • Designer • Design Strategy • Dystopia • Ecological Urbanism • Ecology • Economic Growth • Economic Restructuring • Engineering • environmental determinism • Environmentalism • Ernst Gombrich • Externality • Fordism • Foreign Office Architects • Four Modernizations • Frank Gehry • Frederick Law Olmsted • Frederick Steiner • Garden City movement • Geoffrey Jellicoe • Guilford Press • Hal Foster (art critic) • Harvard Design Magazine • Haussmann's renovation of Paris • heathrow airport • Henri Lefebvre • Hieronymus Cock • Hinterland • Humphry Repton • Ian McHarg • Igualada Cemetery • Industrial Organization • Industrial society • inflatable • Infrastructure • Inner Harbor • Italian renaissance • James Corner • John Claudius Loudon • Kathryn Gustafson • Kenneth Frampton • K. Michael Hays • Kongjian Yu • Lafayette Park, Detroit • landscape architect • Landscape architecture • Landscape Design • landscape ecology • Landscape Planning • Landscape Urbanism • Land-use planning • Le Corbusier • lewis mumford • Ludwig Hilberseimer • Lurie garden • Manfredo Tafuri • Marcel Duchamp • Michael Sorkin • Michael Van Valkenburgh • Modern Architecture • modernism • Modernity • New Urbanism • Norman Bel Geddes • North American Free Trade Agreement • Northerly Island • oven • Overseas Chinese • parametricism • Patrick Geddes • Peter Eisenman • Peter Latz • picturesque • Piet Oudolf • Piney (Pine Barrens resident) • Poetry • Postmodern Architecture • Postmodernism • Postmodernity • Progenitor • Reaktion Books • Redevelopment • redlining • Rem Koolhaas • Renzo Piano • Rhyme • Richard Haag • Richard Payne Knight • Robert Venturi • Roland Barthes • Roman Campagna • Rust Belt • Sanford Kwinter • Setback (architecture) • Shenzhen • site plan • Stan Allen • Storefront for Art and Architecture • Studio Gang Architects • Supply Chain • Tennessee River • Terminology • The Death and Life of Great American Cities • The general theory of employment, interest and money • the new science • The Origins of the Urban Crisis • The Other Hand • The Practice of Everyday Life • To this Day • Urban Art • Urban Design • Urban Economics • Urban History • Urbanism • urbanization • urban planning • Urban renewal • Urban revolution • urban sprawl • Urban theory • Usonia • Via Tiburtina • Walter Benjamin • West 8 • When We Dead Awaken • William Shenstone
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8054-8 / 1400880548
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8054-6 / 9781400880546