Description
The Routledge Research Companion to Landscape Architecture considers landscape architecture’s increasingly important cultural, aesthetic, and ecological role. The volume reflects topical concerns in theoretical, historical, philosophical, and practice-related research in landscape architecture – research that reflects our relationship with what has traditionally been called ‘nature’. It does so at a time when questions about the use of global resources and understanding the links between human and non-human worlds are more crucial than ever.
The twenty-five chapters of this edited collection bring together significant positions in current landscape architecture research under five broad themes – History, Sites and Heritage, City and Nature, Ethics and Sustainability, Knowledge and Practice – supplemented with a discussion of landscape architecture education. Prominent as well as up-and-coming contributors from landscape architecture and adjacent fields including Tom Avermaete, Peter Carl, Gareth Doherty, Ottmar Ette, Matthew Gandy, Christophe Girot, Anne Whiston Spirn, Ian H. Thompson and Jane Wolff seek to widen, fuel, and frame critical discussion in this growing area.
A significant contribution to landscape architecture research, this book will be beneficial not only to students and academics in landscape architecture, but also to scholars in related fields such as history, architecture, and social studies.
Table of Contents
Introduction by the Editors
PART I: Landscape in the Rear-view Mirror: Historicizing the Field
- Culture, Nature: A Punkt in Spice
- Renaissance Gardens: Topicality and the Scene of Nature
- The Birth of Landscape from the Spirit of Theory: Alexander von Humboldt’s Artistic and Scientific American Travel Journals
- Flight from Modernity: Historicizing the Aerial Promise in Landscape Architecture
- Beyond Innocence: The Norms and Forms of Colonial Urban Landscapes
- Scenes from an Anthropocenic Archive
Peter Carl
Clare E.L. Guest
Ottmar Ette
Jeanne Haffner
Tom Avermaete
PART II: The Art of Archiving Landscapes: Tools for Capturing Moving Relationships
Christina Capetillo
7. Transareal Excursions into Landscape of Fragility and Endurance: A Contemporary Interpretation of Alexander von Humboldt’s Mobile Science
Gini Lee and Lisa Diedrich
- Smart Nature? Views from the Cyborg Tree
- "Cloudism": Towards a New Culture of Making Landscapes
- The Marnas Digital Archive: Exploring Practice, Theory, and Place in Space and Time
- The Vertical and the Horizontal: Combining Ethnographic an Geographic Methods in Understanding Landscape
- Toward a Somatology of Landscape: Anthropological Multinaturalism and the ‘Natural’ World
- Designing Landscapes of Entanglement
- Enlarging the Urban Orchestra: Re-thinking Current Approaches to Landscape Architecture
- City, Nature, Infrastructure: A Brief Lexicon
- Urgent Interventions Needed at the Territorial Scale—Now More Than Ever
- Landscape Architecture and Social Sustainability in an Age of Uncertainty: The Need for an Ethical Debate
- Coupling Environmental and Sociocultural Sustainability for Better Design: A Case Study of Emirati Neighbourhoods and Landscape
- Planning with Heritage: A Critical Debate Across Landscape Architecture Practice and Heritage Theory
- The Case to Save Socialist Space: Soviet Residential Landscapes Under Threat of Extinction
- Imaginaries in Landscape Architecture
- Whose City Is It?: Public Space as Agent of Change in Marginalized Settlements in Buenos Aires
- Khôrographos: Space-Scripting
- Towards New Research Methodologies in Design: Shifting Inquiry Away from the Unequivocal Towards the Ambiguous
- Conversation on Education
Natalie Marie Gulsrud
Christophe Girot
Anne Whiston Spirn
PART III: Urban Stories from a Green Planet: Green Stories from and Urban Planet
Gareth Doherty
Tao DuFour
Martin Prominski
Matthew Gandy—interview by Henriette Steiner
Jane Wolff
PART IV: Designing with the Past in the Future: Politics, Heritage and Sustainability
Kelly Shannon
Shelley Egoz
Sneha Mandhan and Alan Berger
Svava Riesto and Anne Tietjen
Christina E. Crawford
PART V: Philosophy of Landscape Architecture: Knowledge, Practice and Education
Ian H. Thompson
Flavio Janches
Michael Tawa
Kathryn Moore
Ellen Braae and Henriette Steiner with Samantha Martin-McAuliffe, Anne Bordeleau, Torben Dam, Lilli Lička, Alan Tate, Tom Nielsen, Inge Bobbink, David Grahame Shane, Catharina Dyrssen, Maggie Roe, Tao DuFour, Gini Lee, Anders Busse Nielsen, and Catherine Dee
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