Is Landscape Urbanism?
Abstract：Landscape has emerged as model and medium for the contemporary city. This claim has been available since the turn of the twenty-first century in the discourse and practices of 'landscape urbanism.' This paper rehearses recent claims for the landscape architect as the urbanist of our age and describes landscape as a medium of urbanization from a variety of disciplinary formations and professional identities. This account describes the origin of the profession of landscape architecture in the nineteenth century as a 'new art' charged with reconciling the design of the industrial city with its ecological and social functions. It locates the origins of landscape urbanist discourse in the intersection of progressive architectural culture and populist environmentalism in the context of neoliberal economies.
Keywords：Landscape ArchitectureLandscape UrbanismEcological Urbanism
Publication Date：2015-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：12( 92-103 )