Making the Metropolitan Landscape : Standing Firm on Middle Ground

ISBN-13: 9780415774109 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 256 str.

Jacqueline Tatom

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This volume brings together for the first time many well known and emerging voices in urban design theory and practice, to argue for a progressive and engaged design practice which speaks to the complexity and diversity of American cities.

Recognising that the landscape of the American city has always reflected democratic aspirations, the plurality of its cultural heritage, and the pragmatism of its intellectual tradition, this book proposes new frameworks for describing and interpreting today’s metropolitan landscape.

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Introduction Jacqueline Tatom.  Photo Essay: Identity in the Middle Ground  Part 1: Towards a Metropolitan Landscape: Interpreting American Cities  1. The Spatial Transformation and Restructuring of American Cities Peter Rowe  2. The Landscape of Comedy Jacqueline Tatom and Andrea Kahn  3. Landscape Urbanism and the American Agrarian Tradition Charles Waldheim  4. The Uses of History Eric Mumford  5. Urbanism by Numbers: A Quantitative Approach to Urban Form Anne Vernez Moudon  Part 2: Towards a Metropolitan Urbanism – Democratic Aspirations, American Pragmatism and Design Practice  6. Pragmatism as Urban Design Gwendolyn Wright  7. Flexibility to Resilience: Directions for Contemporary Practice Hashim Sarkis  8. Multiplicity Ed Robbins  9. Citizenship and Architecture: The Order of the American City Alan Plattus  Part 3: Making the Metropolitan Landscape: Action Through Practice  10. Integrating Urban Design and Educational Reform in the Post-Industrial American City Roy Strickland  11. Drawing, Persuasion, Politics: A Case Study in the California Delta Jane Wolff  12. Urban Decisions / Urban Design Charlie Cannon  13. Beijing Sketchbook James Wines  Part 4: Programs for a Metropolitan Landscape  14. Elements for Metropolitan Design Jacqueline Tatom and Andrea Kahn