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Landscape as Urbanism: A General Theory / Charles Waldheim

Publication year: 2016

ISBN: 9780691238302

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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.


Subject: City planning, Urban design, Urban planning, Urban policy, Urban landscape architecture