xxv, 465 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color) ; 26 x 31 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
2016
Contents:
The Landscape Today and the Challenges Ahead / George F. Thompson, Frederick R. Steiner, and Armando Carbonell -- The Ecological Imagination: Life in the City and the Public Realm / James Corner -- The City Is Not an Egg: Western Urbanization in Relation to Changing Conceptions of Nature / Richard Weller -- The Granite Garden: Where Do We Stand Today? / Anne Whiston Spirn -- The Landscape Architect as Urbanist of Our Age / Charles Waldheim -- Creating Deep Forms in Urban Nature: The Peasant’s Approach to Urban Design / Kongjian Yu -- Sustaining Beauty: The Performance of Appearance Design / Elizabeth K. Meyer -- Creative Fitting: Toward Designing the City as Nature / Jose AlminanĖa and Carol Franklin -- Adaption and Regeneration: A Pathway to New Urban Places / Forster Ndubisi -- The Role of Utopia in Ecological Planning and Design / Danilo Palazzo -- WPA 2.0: Beauty, Economics, Politics, and the Creation of Twenty-First Century Public Infrastructure / Susannah Drake -- New Directions in Urban Nature: The Power and Promise of Biophilic Cities and Blue Urbanism / Timothy Beatley -- Gardening the Bay: Participatory Frameworks for Ecological and Economic Change / Kate Orff -- Resilience Beyond Rhetoric in Urban Design / Nina-Marie E. Lister -- Projective Ecologies in Urban Design and Planning / Chris Reed -- Form Follows Flows: Systems, Design, and the Aesthetic Experience of Ecological Change / Kristina Hill -- Water, Nature in Cities, and the Art of Landscape Design / Laurie Olin -- Prospects for Urban Ecological Design and Planning / Frederick R. Steiner, George F. Thompson, and Armando Carbonell
Summary:
"A compilation of essays by leading international landscape architects, city planners, urban designers, and architects about the need for ecological urban design. Chapters explore the economic, environmental, and public health benefits of integrating nature more fully into cities, including urban green spaces, streetscapes, and buildings"-- Provided by publisher.
