Landscape Urbanism and its Discontents: Dissimulating the Sustainable City.
Landscape Urbanism and its Discontents: Dissimulating the Sustainable City.
$29.95
Duany, Andres and Emily Talen.
Pap. Amsterdam, 2013
Book ID: 93857
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. Landscape Urbanism is conceived as a more ecologically based approach, while New Urbanism is more concerned with the built form.
320 pp.
