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Zusatztext Herein one can find the most articulate and insightful debate on Urbanism to surface in decades. The issues raised should be at the heart of any serious dialog about the human prospect. ---Peter Calthorpoe! author of Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change Landscape urbanism propaganda famously vaunts its own doctrinal incompleteness! indeterminateness! openness! while paradoxically broadcasting a possible maturation. In this unique compendium formidable antagonists pay the Landscape urbanism gobbledygook more attention than it is capable to sustain and scrupulously expose the extent to which LU is but old modernist wine presented in new greenwashed bottles. ---Leon Krier! Louis Kahn Visiting Professor! Yale University SOA2013 This important collection of essays lays bare the comprehensive wrongheadedness at the foundation of Landscape Urbanist theory! from its apparently unconscious preference of the symbolic over the real to its surprisingly outdated conception of man's proper relationship to nature. We've known for decades that the best way to protect the landscape is to stay the heck away from it! collecting ourselves in dense! walkable cities. Any alternative to this time-tested model is still carbon-belching sprawl! however well it drains. ---Jeff Speck! author of Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America! One Step at a Time. Informationen zum Autor Andrés Duany is a founding principal at Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company (DPZ)! a firm widely recognized as a leader of the New Urbanism. Andrés has completed designs for nearly 300 new towns! regional plans! and community revitalization projects! and has delivered hundreds of lectures and seminars! addressing architects! planning groups! university students! and the general public. He is a founder of the Congress for the New Urbanism! which has been characterized by The New York Times as "the most important collective architectural movement in the United States in the past fifty years!" and is the author of The New Civic Art and Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream. He earned a Master's degree in architecture from the Yale School of Architecture! has been awarded several honorary doctorates and many awards for his scholarship in architecture and urban design. Emily Talen is a Professor in the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning and at Arizona State University. She is also co-editor of the Journal of Urbanism and the author of four previous books and many journal articles on urban design and the New Urbanism. She is the Director of the Phoenix Urban Research Laboratory at ASU!sits on more than a dozen editorial and advisory boards! and has received many honors and awards for her work! including being voted one of Planetizen's "Top 100 Urban Thinkers". Klappentext ... the most articulate and insightful debate on urbanism to surface in decades. The issues raised should be at the heart of any serious dialog about the human prospect. - Peter Calthorpe! author of Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change ... scrupulously expose[s] the extent to which Landscape Urbanism is but old modernist wine presented in new greenwashed wineskins. - Leon Krier! Louis Kahn Visiting Professor! Yale University Landscape Urbanism and its Discontents explores the debate around two competing paradigms. Landscape Urbanism is conceived as ecological in terms of natural processes! while New Urbanism engages ecology in terms of sociocultural processes. In this collection of essays! influential urban theorists delve into the tension between the two perspectives. While there should be significant overlap between Landscape Urbanism and New Urbanism ! ...
