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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Landscape Urbanism"”.
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The emergence of landscape urbanism in London: a critical landscape analysis of urban nature under the Anthropocene
… and the contested histories of material urban landscapes. A specific set of ecological ideas underpin the field of ‘landscape urbanism’: an approach to urban design associated with a group of designers emerging from the University of Philadelphia in the 1990’s, and more recently the Harvard …
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Between landschaft and landskip : examining the landscape urbanism discourse through post-infrastructural open space projects in Berlin
… in juxtaposition with the discourse around "landscape urbanism," as these projects' timelines are dispersed across the beginning, rise, and plateau of that movement. First, I have tracked how landscape urbanism has been discussed in the literature since its coinage -- what terms are used most …
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Planning policy and landscape architecture : street design in theory and practice
Recent trends in planning and landscape architecture are moving the two disciplines closer together, yet there persists a lack of awareness of each discipline to the other. Planning’s roots in street design and landscape architecture’s new theory of landscape urbanism, which focuses on …
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Ecological Urbanism: Embedding Nature in the City
… this limited focus on the built environment is "landscape urbanism." First appearing in the 1990s, landscape urbanism is a theory that argues that the best way to organize a city is through the design of its landscape, rather than the design of its buildings. At its best, landscape urbanism …
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Weathering the edge: rescripting the industrial artfacts of the Vredehoek Tin Mine
… It is within these boarders that a forgotten landscape remains as a marker of a time and its processes. This artefact serves as the point of departure for my dissertation, ground in an interest in the relationship between man and nature. This interest manifests in an architectural response; …
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Outlining the indeterminate emergence : landscape as a framework in contemporary urbanism
Since the last decade of the 20th century, landscape has become an emerging medium in the practice of urban design projects. Rather than architecture, landscape, once viewed as margin and subordinate of the architecture and planning discipline, now reverse its role from passive ground to active …
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Mega shed : regional rooms for the Orgman's City
The recent legitimization of Landscape Urbanism as a theory for architectural design may signal a growing cultural shift toward environmental custodianship. Design strategies that blur buildings and landscape have become architecture's new orthodox response to this trend, promising continuity …
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Urban accupuncture: Architecture as a catalyst for environmental and water conservation in the context of the Kilimanjaro Informal Settlement
… and water conservation in the natural and urban landscapes of the riverbed, its rivers' edges and its man-made peripheries. This research locates itself at the northern boundary of the city of Windhoek along a stretch of polluted riverbed in the Kilimanjaro Informal Settlement (KIS) where public …
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The operation of the 'hidden':towards an understanding of architectural and urban space, the case of Omonia square
… project entitled The aesthetic perception of a landscape through the exploration of the uncanny-the case of Vouliagmeni lake, written during my undergraduate studies in Architecture at the Technical University of Crete, and my essays entitled The urban uncanny through the modernisation of the …
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Living drosscapes, remediating urban disconnections
“Adaptively re-using waste landscapes has become one of the twenty-first century’s great infrastructural design challenges” - Alan Berger The study of this dissertation aims to understand how the principles of landscape architecture and the theory of urbanisation can be used to reprogram “waste …
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Culture in concrete : art and the re-imagination of the Los Angeles River as civic space
… international cases reflecting the principles of landscape urbanism, everyday urbanism, and temporary urbanism. By engaging with the River as space for critical human and cultural expression, the research in this thesis suggests that artists are offering key insights for how to plan, design, and …
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Extreme Terres of Anthropocene
… intermediate space between the values process of landscape ecology, which sees as its starting point the investigation of tangible land effects, and the quantitative-qualitative approach of mapping. A scale of values is assigned using GIS-assisted multi-criteria evaluation. The proposed …
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Suburbia 2124: Re-examining Suburban Development through a Contemporary Lens
… tax incentives to developers who reimagine the landscape, and along the site of Fairfax's Bus Rapid Transit line, "The One". This line will not only connect Hybla Valley to the rest of Fairfax County, but also to the rest of the DC Metropolitan area as "The One" is being developed in preparation …