Title & Author:

Feldstudien : zur neuen Ästhetik urbaner Landwirtschaft = Field studies : the new aesthetics of urban agriculture / Regionalverband Ruhr (Hg./ed.) ; mit einem Vorwort von/with a foreword by Udo Weilacher ; mit Fotografien von/with photographs by Peter Liedtke.

Publication:

Basel : Birkhäuser, ©2010.

Description:

119 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map, color plans ; 29 cm

Notes:
Horizons of Experience -- Post-industrial cultural landscapes / Wolfgang Haber -- From the ornamented farm to landscape beautification / Michael Rohde -- Landscape art: on the change of perspective while walking -- Agriculture: Using and managing cultural landscapes -- Experimental Ground mechtenberg -- Cultural landscape in the Ruhr Area / Roland Gunter -- The power of aesthetic impression as a social utopia / Thomas Neis -- Ferme Ornee Mechtenberg. Field experiments between post-industrial wilderness and new usefulness / Udo Weilacher -- Venustas et utilitas / Paolo Burgi.
Parallel text in German and English.

Summary:

In the extremely densely built Ruhr region, two projects explore the space between postindustrial forest landscape and useful agricultural landscape. This book examines these two projects.

ISBN:

9783034602600 (hbk.)
303460260X (hbk.)

Subject:

Bürgi, Paolo.
Urban landscape architecture Germany Ruhr (Region)
Urban agriculture Germany Ruhr (Region)
Paysage urbain Allemagne Ruhr (Région)
Agriculture urbaine Allemagne Ruhr (Région)
Urban agriculture
Urban landscape architecture
Landskapsarkitektur Tyskland Ruhr.
Urbant jordbruk Tyskland Ruhr.
Architecture and Planning.
Germany Ruhr (Region)

Added entries:

Regionalverband Ruhr.

Field studies

Holdings:

Location: Library main 269089
Call No.: BIB 201094
Status: Available