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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459727403321

Titolo

The landscape imagination : collected essays of James Corner, 1990-2010 / / James Corner and Alison Bick Hirsch, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : Princeton Architectural Press, , 2014

©2014

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (320 p.)

Disciplina

712

Soggetti

Landscape architecture

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Preface; Introduction; Part One Theory; Critical Thinking and Landscape Architecture; Sounding the Depths; Three Tyrannies of Contemporary Theory; Recovering Landscape as a Critical Cultural Practice; Part Two Representation and Creativity; Aerial Representation; Drawing and Making in the Landscape Medium; The Agency of Mapping; Eidetic Operations and New Landscapes; Ecology and Landscape as Agents of Creativity; Part Three Landscape Urbanism; Not Unlike Life Itself; Landscape Urbanism; Landscraping; Terra Fluxus; Part Four Practice; Practice; Botanical Urbanism; Hunt's Haunts; Afterword

AcknowledgmentsComplete Bibliography of James Corner