- 222 pages
- English
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About This Book
Aimed at students and instructors, alongside practitioners and researchers, in landscape architecture and its allied disciplinary fields, this book provides the reader with a clear framework of theoretical and practical considerations for interpreting and designing post-industrial landscapes. One of the biggest contemporary challenges currently faced in the profession is how to effectively understand and work with the transformational possibilities of post-industrial landscapes, while negotiating significant spatial challenges, such as degradation and fragmentation.
Transformative Ground: A Field Guide to the Post-Industrial Landscape presents a range of theoretical perspectives and practical approaches, offering a broad scope of contemporary design strategies that deal with post-industrial landscapes. Through a series of thematic chapters, allied with precedents from leading design offices, this book identifies how the context of post-industrial landscapes has compelled shifts in fundamental ideas that underpin landscape design. As a richly illustrated account of this transformative ground, this book provides a must-have guide to help you reimagine the post-industrial landscape.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: transformative ground
- 1 Relinquishing control
- 2 The agency of the wild
- 3 A menacing dragon
- 4 The entanglement
- 5 Everyday aesthetics
- 6 Transitional urbanism
- 7 The mesh and the matrix
- 8 Relational scales
- 9 Enlivened temporality
- Bibliography
- Index