Urban Landscape Perspectives explores how landscape terminology can be usefully brought into the urban debate. Articles in this book include theoretical reflections on the landscape as an eminently project-like figure. It argues for attention to be drawn to the landscape as the origin of the sense of man’s home and of the reasons for the city, as well as to the search for the primary elements of city construction, of its public sphere. This role can only be developed with project-oriented intentions reconstructing the bond between city andlandscape. We therefore associate the project of the landscape with theproject of the city. The title of this book comes to our aid in that it enables us to limit the field of possible definitions to the sphere of relations existing between the landscape project and the city project. When we state the two terms city and landscape separately, we are implicitly acknowledging a detachment between two entities that tradition has considered inseparable. Describes new methods and approaches dealing with the contemporary environment, whether it is from the point of view of the city or the landscape Gives examples of specific case studies and issues related to environmental development or addressing how landscape terminology can be usefully brought into the urban debate INDICE: Urban Landscape Perspectives: Landscape Project, City Project.- Thinking over Urban Landscapes, Interpretations and Courses of Action.- Landscape, Live Nature. Towards the Construction of the Image of the Landscape in the West.- Landscape as a Regenerative Structure of a Fragmented Territory.- The Influence of the Landscape on the Identity of Urban Space.- [Centrality] and/orCent][rality: a Matter of Placing the Boundaries.- Urban Landscape and an Ecology of Creativity.- Three Metaphors for the Next Landscape.- Index.- Name Index.
- ISBN: 978-3-540-76798-5
- Editorial: Springer
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 161
- Fecha Publicación: 01/02/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés