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| Preface | ||
| Introduction: Recovering Landscape as a Critical Cultural Practice | 1 | |
| 1 | Nature Recalled | 29 |
| 2 | The Reclaiming of Sites | 45 |
| 3 | Four Trace Concepts in Landscape Architecture | 59 |
| 4 | Things Take Time and Time Takes Things: The Danish Landscape | 69 |
| 5 | Shifting Sites: The Swiss Way, Geneva | 79 |
| 6 | Octagon: The Persistence of the Ideal | 87 |
| 7 | Liminal Geometry and Elemental Landscape: Construction and Representation | 103 |
| 8 | Aerial Representation and the Recovery of Landscape | 121 |
| 9 | Mutuality and the Cultures of Landscape Architecture | 141 |
| 10 | Eidetic Operations and New Landscapes | 153 |
| 11 | Leveling the Land | 171 |
| 12 | The Amsterdam Bos: The Modern Public Park and the Construction of Collective Experience | 187 |
| 13 | Neither Wilderness nor Home: The Indian Maidan | 205 |
| 14 | Airport/Landscape | 221 |
| 15 | Programming the Urban Surface | 233 |
| 16 | Synthetic Regionalization: The Dutch Landscape Toward a Second Modernity | 251 |
| Afterword: What Is Public in Landscape? | 275 | |
| Contributors | 285 |
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Ana Rosa Gonzalez
reviewed Recovering Landscape: Essays in Contemporary Landscape Theory on August 12, 2008
Recovering Landscape: Essays in Contemporary Landscape Theory
I remember seeing a copy of this book in school (maybe in S. Parsons' hands), but only recently picked it up and read it for the essays by Corner, Girot, Marot, and Descombes. Lately, I've been seeking out the books like this one (and there are several) with essays that cover a variety of topics in contemporary landscape practice but also always sort of herald the emergence(some, like this one, were written almost ten years ago) of "landscape urbanism" as a new field. I have to admit that I find the new category useful only in that it seems to bring together great essays on landscape. And there is, in fact, a sort of direction shared by most of these writers and practitioners.
It's really exciting stuff to read. Alex Wall's essay, "Programming the Urban Surface," and Bart Lootsma's, Synthetic Regionalization," stand out as excellent surveys of this trend. I'm also particularly partial to the texts by Girot, Descombes, Berrizbeita, and Mathur. James Corner's essay (possibly more than his introduction) is also an exciting entry into these topics (which I will continue to be vague about for now).
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