The Landscape Urbanism Reader

By: Waldheim, Charles

Book Overview

With populations decentralizing and cities sprawling ever-outward, twenty-first-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 definitive collection of essays by many of the field's top practitioners. Fourteen essays written by leading figures 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 field. 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1568984391
• ISBN13: 9781568984391
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

A Must Have

This is a must read for any aspiring urban designer, landscape architect, or architect interested in current theories and practices relative to the future of our urban environment.

The Landscape Urbanism Reader

this book is really good to students who study Landscape Architecture.

The Landscape Urbanism Reader

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