Landscape Urbanism and Its Discontents: Dissimulating the Sustainable City

by Andrés Duany

Landscape Urbanism and New Urbanism - negotiating the relationship between cities and the natural world

In contemporary Western society, urban development is regarded as an unfortunate blight from which nature provides a much-needed respite. This apparent dichotomy ignores the interdependence between human settlement and the natural world. In fact, one of the most pressing problems facing urban theorists today is determining how...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0865717400
• ISBN13: 9780865717404
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: New Society Publishers - New Society Publishe
• Length: 315 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"