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Landscape Urbanism theory gained momentum for its potential to drive new urban forms and increase the agency of landscape architecture in the design and planning of the contemporary city. However, this approach still leaves significant gaps in our design discourse surrounding issues of equity that remain since Frederick Law Olmsted and the creation of Central Park. If Landscape Urbanism seeks transformational change, landscape architecture and planning professionals must recognize their role and responsibility in breaking down the physical and spatial manifestations of structural and systemic racism that continue to disproportionately affect people based on race and contribute to the increasing inequity in our cities. The momentum and influence of Landscape Urbanism today provides landscape architects and its allied professionals an important opportunity to critique what is missing from conversations in design that can move us toward progress in addressing issues of social and environmental equity. Environmental justice and environmental racism will be defined to frame the objectives of an environmental justice agenda for Landscape Urbanism. More specifically, Laura Pulido's broadened definition of environmental racism that speaks to the spatial manifestations of environmental racism frames this critique. Through a review of Landscape Urbanism discourse and practice, examples of non-action, complacency, and erasure of structural and systemic racism embedded in the physical environment must be acknowledged in order to hold critical conversations on what it means to design better cities. ; https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/154720/1/Low_DesignisPolitical.pdf

This book is a useful reference in the field of urbanism. It explains how the contemporary city and landscape have been shaped by certain twentieth century visions that have carried over into the twenty-first century. Aimed at both students and professionals, this collection of essays on diverse subjects and cases does not attempt to establish universal interpretations; it rather highlights some outstanding episodes that help us understand why the planning culture has given way to other forms of urbanism, from urban design to strategic urbanism or landscape urbanism. Compared with global interpretations of urbanism based on socioeconomic history or architectural historiography, Urban Visions. From Planning Culture to Landscape Urbanism, aims to present the discipline couched in international contemporary debate and adopt a historic and comparative perspective.^The book contents pertain equally to other related disciplines, such as architecture, urban history, urban design, landscape architecture and geography. Foreword by Rafael Moneo. Carmen Díez Medina, Madrid 1962 Degree in Architecture from the Madrid Polytechnic University (ETSAM UPM), 1989. Ph. D. at the Technische Universität Wien (TU Wien), 1996. Associate Professor of Theory and Architectural History at the School of Engineering and Architecture (EINA) and Coordinator of the PhD Program New Territories in Architecture, University of Zaragoza (Spain). Collaborating architect at Rafael Moneo in Madrid (1996-2001) and previoulsy at Nigst, Hubmann & Vass in Vienna (1990-1996). Javier Monclús, Zaragoza 1951 Degree in Architecture and Ph. D. from the Catalonia Polytechnic University (ETSAB, UPC), 1977. Full Professor of Urbanism at the School of Engineering and Architecture (EINA), University of Zaragoza (Spain), where he has been Chair of the Department of Architecture (2009-2016).^Previously, Professor of Urbanism at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in Barcelona (1980-2005). Member of the Editorial Board of Planning Perspectives. He has worked as a planner and as a consultant in Barcelona and Zaragoza.

"Critical Territories opens with a series of contributions to the ongoing development of our theoretical perspectives before turning to elaborate, from within the academic framework of the Architectural Association, the work of our students and the agendas they have engaged with in Mexico, Sri Lanka, Dubai and China and the intensive workshops with which they have been involved in Europe."--

"It has become conventional to think of urbanism and landscape as opposing one another--or to think of landscape as merely providing temporary relief from urban life as shaped by buildings and infrastructure. But, driven in part by environmental concerns, landscape has recently emerged as a model and medium for the city, with some theorists arguing that landscape architects are the urbanists of our age. In Landscape as Urbanism, one of the field's pioneers presents a powerful case for rethinking the city through landscape.Charles Waldheim traces the roots of landscape as a form of urbanism from its origins in the Renaissance through the twentieth century. Growing out of progressive architectural culture and populist environmentalism, the concept was further informed by the nineteenth-century invention of landscape architecture as a "new art" charged with reconciling the design of the industrial city with its ecological and social conditions. In the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, as urban planning shifted from design to social science, and as urban design committed to neotraditional models of town planning, landscape urbanism emerged to fill a void at the heart of the contemporary urban project.Generously illustrated, Landscape as Urbanism examines works from around the world by designers ranging from Ludwig Hilberseimer, Andrea Branzi, and Frank Lloyd Wright to James Corner, Adriaan Geuze, and Michael Van Valkenburgh. The result is the definitive account of an emerging field that is likely to influence the design of cities for decades to come"--

"It has become conventional to think of urbanism and landscape as opposing one another--or to think of landscape as merely providing temporary relief from urban life as shaped by buildings and infrastructure. But, driven in part by environmental concerns, landscape has recently emerged as a model and medium for the city, with some theorists arguing that landscape architects are the urbanists of our age. In Landscape as Urbanism, one of the field's pioneers presents a powerful case for rethinking the city through landscape.Charles Waldheim traces the roots of landscape as a form of urbanism from its origins in the Renaissance through the twentieth century. Growing out of progressive architectural culture and populist environmentalism, the concept was further informed by the nineteenth-century invention of landscape architecture as a "new art" charged with reconciling the design of the industrial city with its ecological and social conditions. In the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, as urban planning shifted from design to social science, and as urban design committed to neotraditional models of town planning, landscape urbanism emerged to fill a void at the heart of the contemporary urban project.Generously illustrated, Landscape as Urbanism examines works from around the world by designers ranging from Ludwig Hilberseimer, Andrea Branzi, and Frank Lloyd Wright to James Corner, Adriaan Geuze, and Michael Van Valkenburgh. The result is the definitive account of an emerging field that is likely to influence the design of cities for decades to come"--

Bridging remote sensing and worldviews: urban landscapes from a preindustrial perspective / Georges Farhat -- PART I. EARTHWORKS: Space and structure in early Mesopotamian cities / Jason A. Ur -- Landscape change and ceremonial praxis in medieval Rome - from the Via Triumphalis to the Via Papalis / Hendrik W. Dey -- What constituted Cahokian urbanism? / Timothy R. Pauketat -- PART II. WATERSCAPES: Hydraulic landscapes of Roman and Byzantine cities / Jordan Pickett -- Monsoon landscapes and flexible provisioning in the preindustrial cities of the Indian subcontinent / Monica l. Smith -- The Phnom Kulen capital - a singular and early case of landscape construction in ancient Cambodia / Jean-Baptiste Chevance -- The weave of natural and cultural ecology - Ekamrakshetra, the historic temple town of Bhubaneswar, India / Priyaleen Singh -- PART III. FORESTRY: Xingu garden cities - Amazonian urban landscapes, or what? / Michael Heckenberger -- "when the king breaks a town he builds another" - politics, slavery, and constructed urban landscapes in tropical West Africa / J. Cameron Monroe.