ABSTRACT
The Routledge Research Companion to Landscape Architecture considers landscape architecture’s increasingly important cultural, aesthetic, and ecological role. The volume reflects topical concerns in theoretical, historical, philosophical, and practice-related research in landscape architecture – research that reflects our relationship with what has traditionally been called ‘nature’. It does so at a time when questions about the use of global resources and understanding the links between human and non-human worlds are more crucial than ever.
The twenty-five chapters of this edited collection bring together significant positions in current landscape architecture research under five broad themes – History, Sites and Heritage, City and Nature, Ethics and Sustainability, Knowledge and Practice – supplemented with a discussion of landscape architecture education. Prominent as well as up-and-coming contributors from landscape architecture and adjacent fields including Tom Avermaete, Peter Carl, Gareth Doherty, Ottmar Ette, Matthew Gandy, Christophe Girot, Anne Whiston Spirn, Ian H. Thompson and Jane Wolff seek to widen, fuel, and frame critical discussion in this growing area.
A significant contribution to landscape architecture research, this book will be beneficial not only to students and academics in landscape architecture, but also to scholars in related fields such as history, architecture, and social studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|2 pages
Landscape in the rear-view mirrorHistoricizing the field
chapter 3|13 pages
The birth of landscape from the spirit of theory
chapter 4|13 pages
Flight from modernity
part II|2 pages
The art of archiving landscapes Tools for capturing moving relationships
chapter 7|12 pages
Transareal excursions into landscapes of fragility and endurance
chapter 10|13 pages
The Marnas digital archive
part III|2 pages
Urban stories from a green planet
chapter 11|12 pages
The vertical and the horizontal
chapter 12|14 pages
Toward a somatology of landscape
chapter 14|9 pages
Enlarging the urban orchestra
part IV|2 pages
Designing with the past in the future
chapter 17|12 pages
Landscape architecture and social sustainability in an age of uncertainty
chapter 18|10 pages
Coupling environmental and sociocultural sustainability for better design
chapter 19|13 pages
Planning with heritage
chapter 20|14 pages
The case to save socialist space
part V|2 pages
Philosophy of landscape architecture