{"product_id":"landscape-as-urbanism-a-general-theory-9780691238302","title":"Landscape as Urbanism: A General Theory","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA definitive intellectual history of landscape urbanism\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt has become conventional to think of urbanism and landscape as opposing one another--or to think of landscape as merely providing temporary relief from urban life as shaped by buildings and infrastructure. But, driven in part by environmental concerns, landscape has recently emerged as a model and medium for the city, with some theorists arguing that landscape architects are the urbanists of our age. In \u003ci\u003eLandscape as Urbanism\u003c\/i\u003e, one of the field's pioneers presents a powerful case for rethinking the city through landscape. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCharles Waldheim traces the roots of landscape as a form of urbanism from its origins in the Renaissance through the twentieth century. Growing out of progressive architectural culture and populist environmentalism, the concept was further informed by the nineteenth-century invention of landscape architecture as a \"new art\" charged with reconciling the design of the industrial city with its ecological and social conditions. In the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, as urban planning shifted from design to social science, and as urban design committed to neotraditional models of town planning, landscape urbanism emerged to fill a void at the heart of the contemporary urban project. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGenerously illustrated, \u003ci\u003eLandscape as Urbanism\u003c\/i\u003e examines works from around the world by designers ranging from Ludwig Hilberseimer, Andrea Branzi, and Frank Lloyd Wright to James Corner, Adriaan Geuze, and Michael Van Valkenburgh. The result is the definitive account of an emerging field that is likely to influence the design of cities for decades to come.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCharles Waldheim\u003c\/b\u003e is the John E. Irving Professor of Landscape Architecture and director of the Office for Urbanization at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eConstructed Ground\u003c\/i\u003e, the editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Landscape Urbanism Reader\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCase: Lafayette Park Detroit\u003c\/i\u003e, and the coeditor of \u003ci\u003eStalking Detroit\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eComposite Landscapes\u003c\/i\u003e, among other books.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50507892162834,"sku":"9780691238302","price":31.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_878581dc-b1ce-4e2c-af19-c1ced74b8b45.jpg?v=1730869643","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/landscape-as-urbanism-a-general-theory-9780691238302","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}