Landscape Architecture

City and countryside -- Sea and survival -- The plight -- A step forward -- The cast and the capsule -- Nature in the metropolis -- On values -- A response of values -- The world is a capsule -- Processes as values -- The naturalists -- The river basin -- The metropolitan region -- Process and form -- The city: process and form -- The city: health and pathology -- Prospect.

Terra fluxus / James Corner -- Landscape as urbanism / Charles Waldheim -- The emergence of landscape urbanism / Grahame Shane -- An art of instrumentality : thinking through landscape urbanism / Richard Weller -- Vision in motion : representing landscape in time / Christophe Girot -- Looking back at landscape urbanism : speculations on site / Julia Czerniak -- Constructed ground : questions of scale / Linda Pollak -- From theory to resistance : landscape urbanism in Europe / Kelly Shannon -- Landscapes of infrastructure / Elizabeth Mossop -- Urban highways and the reluctant public realm / Jacqueline Tatom -- Drosscape / Alan Berger -- Landscapes of exchange : re-articulating site / Clare Lyster -- Synthetic surfaces / Pierre Bélanger -- Public works practice / Chris Reed.

The Death and Life of Great American Cities was described by The New York Times as "perhaps the most influential single work in the history of town planning. . . . [It] can also be seen in a much larger context. It is first of all a work of literature; the descriptions of street life as a kind of ballet and the bitingly satiric account of traditional planning theory can still be read for pleasure even by those who long ago absorbed and appropriated the book's arguments." Jane Jacobs, an editor and writer on architecture in New York City in the early sixties, argued that urban diversity and vitality were being destroyed by powerful architects and city planners. Rigorous, sane, and delightfully epigrammatic, Jane Jacobs's tour de force is a blueprint for the humanistic management of cities. It remains sensible, knowledgeable, readable, and indispensable. -- Book Description.

"The Routledge Research Companion to Landscape Architecture considers landscape architecture's increasingly important cultural, aesthetic and ecological role today. The volume reflects topical concerns in theoretical, historical, philosophical and practice-related research in landscape architecture - research that reflects our relationship with what has traditionally been called 'nature'. It does so at a time when questions about the use of global resources and understanding the links between human and non-human worlds are more crucial than ever. The twenty-five chapters of this edited collection bring together significant positions in current landscape architecture research under five broad themes - History, Sites and Heritage, City and Nature, Ethics and Sustainability, Knowledge and Practice - supplemented with a discussion of landscape architecture education. Prominent contributors from landscape architecture and adjacent fields including Tom Avermaete, Jane Wolff, Gareth Doherty, Matthew Gandy, Christophe Girot, Ottmar Ette and Anne Whiston Spirn, as well as up-and-coming researchers, seek to widen, fuel and frame critical discussion in this growing area. They do so by investigating recurrent motifs as well as slippages and ruptures in the historical development of landscape architecture and by paying particular attention to current concerns. A significant contribution to landscape architecture research, this book will be beneficial not only to students and academics in landscape architecture, but also to scholars in related fields such as history, architecture and social studies"-- Provided by publisher.