Values in Landscape Architecture and Environmental Design

Finding Center in Theory and Practice

M. Elen Deming

• Publisher: LSU Press
• Year: 2015
• ISBN:
  9780807160800
• Topic: Architecture
• Subtopic: Urban Planning & Landscaping

The successful realization of diversity, resilience, usefulness, profitability, or beauty in landscape design requires a firm understanding of the stakeholders' values. This collection, which incorporates a wide variety of geographic locations and cultural perspectives, reinforces the necessity for clear and articulate comprehension of the many factors that guide the design process.As the contributors to this collection reveal, dominant and emerging social, political, philosophical, and economic concerns perpetually assert themselves in designed landscapes, from manifestations of class consciousness in Napa Valley vineyards to recurring themes and conflicts in American commemorative culture as seen in designs for national memorials. One essay demonstrates the lasting impact of the doctrine of Manifest Destiny on the culture and spaces of the Midwest, while another considers the shifting historical narratives that led to the de-domestication and subsequent re-wilding of the Oostvaardersplassen in the Netherlands. These eleven essays help foster the ability to conduct a balanced analysis of various value systems and produce a lucid visualization of the necessary tradeoffs.Offering an array of case studies and theoretical arguments, Values in Landscape Architecture and Environmental Design encourages professionals and educators to bring self-awareness, precision, and accountability to their consideration of landscape designs.

INDEX

Note: Italicized page numbers indicate illustrations and their captions.

ABMC. See American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC)

aesthetic affects, of constructed and found ecologies, 47–48

aesthetic experience: of Australian Garden at Cranbourne, 39–43, 45–46

biocentric perspective and, 32

cause of vs. response to, 63–64

dissonance as, 34

duration as requirement of, 36–37, 46

as ecosystem function, 47

in everyday life, 35

and sensory mode of thinking, 60

shaping the quality of, 67–68

understanding value of, 64

aesthetic intuition, 46

aesthetics: affects, sustainability, public policy, and, 47–49

as art and science of sense perception and cognition, 35–36

as ecosystem service that supports human life, 47

in field of landscape studies, 12

insertion of, in sustainability triad, 30

as manifestation of civilization, 67–68

pragmatics, design, and, 20–22

sustainable, vs. sustainable beauty, 34–35

theories of affect and agency of, in sustainability discourse, 38

truth and, 60, 62–63, 69. See also social aesthetics

aesthetic theory, and landscape design, 36, 221–22

affects: aesthetic, 47–49

contemporary theories of, 38

landscape architecture of, 46

social aesthetics and, 37–39

agrarian landscape myth, 153–54

agrarian narratives, 149, 152–54

agriculture, vineyard cultivation as shift in, 161

agriculture to industrialization shift, 150

Alanen, Arnold, 11

Ambedkar, Bhimrao, 188

Ambedkar, Ramabai, 188–89

Ambedkar Sthal, Lucknow: architecture of imperial Delhi copied in, 183

Buddhist architectural elements in, 182

countermodernism of, 182–83

extra-human scale, 185–86

as memorial to BSP leadership, 177, 177

survey of visitors to, 190–91

use of enfilade in forecourts, 180, 180

American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC), 120, 123–24

American Gothic (Wood), 153

American memorialization practices, paradox of, 117

American narrative, filmmakers of early mass-media era and, 151

American processes of governance, focus of, 223

American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA): Task Force on Values, 230–31

American values, 146

American Viticulture Areas (AVAs), 165

Anderson, Sherwood, 150

animals: de-domestication of, 71–73, 87

nonspecific care for, in re-created nature, 86

use and management of introduced herbivores, 77

anticipatory design vs. performance measurement, 15

Aragon, Louis, 33

art, twentieth-century, and stretching boundaries of beauty, 33

ASLA. See American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA)

asset-based community development, 98

aurochs (Bos primigenius), 79–81, 87n1

Australia, aerial view of interior, 45

Australian Garden, Cranbourne, Victoria, 39–43, 40–43, 45–46

AVAs (American Viticulture Areas), 165

back-breeding, 73, 81–83

Bahajun Samaj Party (BSP), 174–75, 177, 187–88, 194–95

Bateson, Gregory, 37, 48

Bawa, Geoffrey, 181

beauty: as experience of excitement, 33–34

as malleable category, 32–35

“Sustaining Beauty” manifesto, 31–32, 36–37

Bentham, Jeremy, 14, 27n13

Benton, Thomas Hart, 152

Beringer Vineyards, 159, 162, 162, 163, 165, 170

Bhimrao Ambedkar Samajik Parivartan Sthal. See Ambedkar Sthal, Lucknow

Bialowieza Forest, 82–83

body/mind dichotomy, 60

Branstetter, Brian, 112

Bressi, Todd, 8

Breton, André, 33

Brown, Brenda, 227

Brown, J. Carter, 123, 126, 135n10

Brown, Kyle D., 93, 96–97

BSP (Bahajun Samaj Party), 174–75, 177, 187–88, 194–95

Buddha statue, Gomti Boulevard, Lucknow, 186

Buddha Vihar Shanti Upvan, Lucknow, 177, 177, 180, 183, 185, 190–91

built environment, as repository of values, 4–6

Butzer Design Partnership, 103, 113–15, 114

California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, 89–90

capitalism: Gotland Island’s entry into, 201–2, 204

Marx on, 209–11

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Preface and Acknowledgments
• Value Added: An Introduction
• Beyond “Sustaining Beauty”: Musings on a Manifesto
• The Value of Values
• De-domestication and the Wild
• Toward Ecological Sovereignty: The Regenerative Communities Initiative
• Memory Work: The Submissions to the Oklahoma City Memorial Competition
• Honoring Korean War Veterans: Conflicting Values of Commemoration
• Forging Commonplace: The Old Northwest Territory’s Emblematic Transition from Wilderness to Landscape
• Imbibing Terroir: Values in Napa Valley’s Cultural Landscape of Wine
• City of Nawabs to City of Elephants: Urban Transformation in Lucknow, India
• From Gotland to Youngstown: The Indissoluble Link between Landscape and Justice
• Finding Center: Design Agency and the Politics of Landscape
• Contributors
• Index