| Description |
xi, 287 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: Recovering Landscape as a Critical Cultural Practice / James Corner -- 1. Nature Recalled / Marc Treib -- 2. The Reclaiming of Sites / Sebastien Marot -- 3. Four Trace Concepts in Landscape Architecture / Christophe Girot -- 4. Things Take Time and Time Takes Things: The Danish Landscape / Steen A. B. Hoyer -- 5. Shifting Sites: The Swiss Way, Geneva / Georges Descombes -- 6. Octagon: The Persistence of the Ideal / Alan Balfour -- 7. Liminal Geometry and Elemental Landscape: Construction and Representation / Denis Cosgrove -- 8. Aerial Representation and the Recovery of Landscape / Charles Waldheim -- 9. Mutuality and the Cultures of Landscape Architecture / Stanislaus Fung -- 10. Eidetic Operations and New Landscapes / James Corner -- 11. Leveling the Land / David Leatherbarrow -- 12. The Amsterdam Bos: The Modern Public Park and the Construction of Collective Experience / Anita Berrizbeita -- 13. Neither Wilderness nor Home: The Indian Maidan / Anuradha Mathur |
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14. Airport/Landscape / Denis Cosgrove -- 15. Programming the Urban Surface / Alex Wall -- 16. Synthetic Regionalization: The Dutch Landscape Toward a Second Modernity / Bart Lootsma -- Afterword: What Is Public in Landscape? / Alan Balfour |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Landscape architecture. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81069666
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| Subject |
Landscape architecture.
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| Author |
Balfour, Alan (Alan H.)
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Corner, James, 1961-
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| LC no. |
98047386 |
| ISBN |
1568981791 alkaline paper |
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