The Landscape Urbanism Reader

Princeton Architectural Press

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UPC:
9781568984391
Maximum Purchase:
2 units
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
6/8/2006
Release Date:
6/8/2006
Author:
Charles Waldheim
Language:
English: Published; English: Original Language; English
Edition:
First Edition
Pages:
288
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With populations decentralizing and cities sprawling ever-outward, twenty-rst-century urban planners are challenged by the need to organize not just people but space itself. Hence a new architectural discourse has emerged: landscape urbanism. In The Landscape Urbanism Reader Charles Waldheimwho is at the forefront of this new movementhas assembled the denitive collection of essays by many of the eld's top practitioners. Fourteen essays written by leading gures across a range of disciplines and from around the worldincluding James Corner, Linda Pollak, Alan Berger, Pierre Blanger, Julia Czerniak, and morecapture the origins, the contemporary milieu, and the aspirations of this relatively new eld. The Landscape Urbanism Reader is an inspiring signal to the future of city making as well as an indispensablereference for students, teachers, architects, and urban planners.