This book presents: 1) an urban studies panorama on the emergence of a built landscape continuum following the anthropic expansion at the geographic scale and the consequent demise of the city/country divide; 2) an in-depth theoretical analysis of disparate landscape constructs, culminating in the proposal of a comprehensive spatial paradigm addressing both manmade and natural contexts; 3) the testing of the proposed spatial paradigm through the implementation of a landscape installation in the Sierra Madre Oriental of Mexico, aiming at the institution of an in-situ territorial narrative. Forward by Peter G. Rowe and afterword by Elisa C. Cattaneo.
By virtue of its openness, fluidity, and volatility, fluctuating between heterogeneity and diversity, today’s built landscape continuum exhibits analogies with distinct notions of landscape. An open-ended classification of contemporary space-making strategies exceeding the urban ambit is determined through a comparative anatomy of global case studies ranging from hard to soft: geotechnics or applied geographies, machinic micro-ecologies, aesthetic prostheses for operative metabolism, cybernetic utopias, atmospheric assemblages, psychic spheres, creole horizons, semiotic landscapes, geopolitical landscapes, geophilosophical excavations. The proposed spatial paradigm, accommodating aggregates of artificial and living systems, physical and mental spaces, and machinic and cultural landscapes, attempts at reconciling the traditionally opposed ‘scientific-cognitive-metabolist’ and ‘cultural-geophilosophical-territorialist’ interpretations of landscape. The resulting model transcends the exhausted myths of urban space, metropolitanism, and their filiations, in favor of a new form of urbanity and its attributes. The basis for the theoretical elaboration was developed in the frame of the IDAUP of Università di Ferrara/Polis University. The landscape installation in the Sierra Madre Oriental is part of a research project supported by the Universidad de Monterrey and Parque Ecológico Chipinque.
The target audience of the book is researchers, teachers, and advanced students engaged in landscape and urban studies with a prevalent focus on theory. The book can also benefit professional and institutional audiences looking for ethical/methodological orientation.
- ISBN: 978-3-319-77886-0
- Editorial: Springer
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Fecha Publicación: 31/08/2018
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés