Landscape as Urbanism : A General Theory
- Author
- Charles Waldheim
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Language
- English
- Document Type
- Book
- Faculty / Subject Heading
- Arts & Architecture
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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.
Keywords: City planning / Urban design / Urban planning / Urban policy / Urban landscape architecture
