Landscape urbanism and its discontents : dissimulating the sustainable city / edited by Andrés Duany and Emily Talen.

Title & Author:

Landscape urbanism and its discontents : dissimulating the sustainable city / edited by Andrés Duany and Emily Talen.

Publication:

Gabriola, BC : New Society Publishers, c2013.

Description:

1 v. (various pagings) : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Reminiscences -- 2. Landscape and the city -- 3. Landscape urbanism, new urbanism and the environmental paradox of cities -- 4. The metropolis versus the city -- 5. The social apathy of landscape urbanism -- 6. A general theory of ecological urbanism -- 7. The zombies of Gund Hall go forth and eat America's brains -- 8. Landscape urbanism : supplement or substitute? -- 9. Why dogs should not eat dogs -- 10. Absorbing landscape urbanism -- 11. Art vitiating life -- 12. Marginality and the prospect for urbanism in the post-ecological city -- 13. Adaptive urbanism -- 14. Talk of urbanism -- 15. Articulating landscape urbanism -- 16. Landscape ecology and its urbanism -- 17. Urbanism : new, landscape, or otherwise : the case for complementarity -- 18. A critique of the high line : landscape urbanism and the global south.

Summary:

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 to resolve the tension between the built and natural environments, in the process creating truly sustainable cities. Landscape Urbanism and its Discontents is a collection of essays exploring the debate over urban reform, now polarized around the two competing paradigms of landscape urbanism and the new urbanism.

ISBN:

9780865717404 (paperback)
0865717400 (paperback)
(ebk.)
9781550925364

Subject:

Urban landscape architecture.
City planning.
Sustainable development.
Paysage urbain.
Design urbain.
Développement durable.
urban landscapes.
sustainable development.
urban design.

Added entries:

Duany, Andres.
Talen, Emily, 1958-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 284529
Call No.: BIB 223506
Status: Available

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