Routledge Research Companion to Landscape Architecture

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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. About the Author Ellen Braae has been Professor of Landscape Architecture Theory and Method at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, since 2009 where she heads the research group ‘Landscape Architecture and Urbanism’. She has been Visiting Professor at AHO, Norway (2010) and TU Delft, the Netherlands (2018). Her research bridges design and humanities with focus on transformation of post-industrial and welfare landscapes. This crossover is partly reflected in her recent book Beauty Redeemed. Recycling Post-Industrial Landscapes (2015), partly in her positions as Chairman of the Danish Art Council | Architecture (2018-2021) and member of the National Independent Research Council for Culture and Communication (2011-2015). Henriette Steiner is Associate Professor at the Section for Landscape Architecture and Planning at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Her research investigates the cultural role and meaning of architecture, cities and landscapes. She is author of the book The Emergence of a Modern City: Golden Age Copenhagen 1800-1850 (2014) and has co-edited six academic volumes, including Architecture and Control (2018). She obtained her PhD from the University of Cambridge, UK, in 2008 and afterwards held a position as Research Associate in the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich in Switzerland for five years. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of Figures Contributors The role of landscape architecture research: introduction to the volume Moving backwards into the discipline Forms of knowledge Configuring the volume Notes Bibliography Part I Landscape in the rear-view mirror: historicizing the field Chapter 1 Culture, nature, a punkt in spice Finitude, history, common-to-all Stratification of agonic communication Ethics and the analogical field Notes Bibliography Chapter 2 Renaissance gardens: topicality and the scene of nature Topos Field and theatre Subtle personification of the ground Notes Chapter 3 The birth of landscape from the spirit of theory: alexander von Humboldt’s artistic and scientific American Travel Journals Landscapes of theory Landscapes of multiple connectedness Notes Bibliography Chapter 4 Flight from modernity: historicizing the aerial promise in landscape architecture Capitalism, modernity, and ethnography from the air Aerial photography and ‘social space’ in post-war France Sociological expertise and the study of the built environment Creating the ‘bottom-up’ Coda Notes Bibliography Chapter 5 Beyond innocence: the norms and forms of colonial urban landscapes The invention of a discipline between metropole and colony The landscape as site of innovation and emancipation The landscape of ‘discreet separation’ Challenges for research on colonial urban landscapes, and beyond Notes Bibliography Part 2 The art of archiving landscapes: tools for capturing moving relationships Chapter 6 Scenes from an Anthropocenic Archive Notes Bibliography Chapter 7 a contemporary interpretation of Alexander von Humboldt’s mobile science Alexander von Humboldt’s mobile science: A theoretical foundation for transareal journeys Travelling transect: A methodology for engagement with changescapes Coastal margins: Changescapes par excellence Rocksect: A transareal exploration of Canarian and Australian tidal pools Tableau physique in the making: Design intervention in six tidal pools in New South Wales and Tenerife Enduring ways of seeing and knowing: Mobile science meets landscape change Notes Bibliography Chapter 8 Smart nature? Views from the cyborg tree Everyware: From smart cities to smart natures Conceptualizing smart urban nature Bounded cyborg natures Notes Bibliography Chapter 9 “Cloudism”: towards a new culture of making landscapes Building a cloud Towards a new culture of making landscapes Field experiments: Scanning the territory Notes Bibliography Chapter 10 The Marnas digital archive: exploring practice, theory, and place in space and time Sven-Ingvar Andersson and Marnas: Theory and practice in place Marnas: A garden laboratory Marnas: The photographic record ‘Marnas’: A journey through space, time, and ideas ‘Take a tour’: The multimedia videos ‘Explore the garden’: The self-guided tour ‘Meet SIA’ and ‘Travel in Time’ The Marnas digital archive, landscape architecture, and the digital humanities Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Part III Urban stories from a green planet: green stories from an urban planet Chapter 11 The vertical and the horizontal: combining ethnographic and geographic methods in understanding landscape Methods Walking Abstraction and aerial Notes Bibliography Chapter 12 Toward a somatology of landscape: anthropological multinaturalism and the ‘natural’ world Nature/culture Perspectivism, multinaturalism The natural world Situated perspectivism, multinatural situation Toward a somatology of landscape Notes Bibliography Chapter 13 Designing landscapes of entanglement Dethroning naturalism: Descola’s relative universalism In the Anthropocene, everything becomes a matter of design: Bruno Latour’s philosophy of design The Anthropocene and landscape architecture Entangling non-humans Entangling time Entangling humans Conclusion and outlook Notes Bibliography Chapter 14 Enlarging the urban orchestra: re-thinking current approaches to landscape architecture Chapter 15 City, nature, infrastructure: a brief lexicon Observing and imagining Notes Bibliography Part IV Designing with the past in the future: politics, heritage and sustainability Chapter 16 Urgent interventions needed at the territorial scale—now more than ever Nature conservation to restore ecologies Coastal afforestation to respond to sea level rise Water urbanism to mitigate flood and drought New energy landscapes and transport towards deep decarbonization Accentuate agro-ecological regions to address food and water security Forest urbanism to create micro-climates and carbon sinks Climate changes, landscapes evolve: Landscape architects must act Notes Bibliography Chapter 17 Landscape architecture and social sustainability in an age of uncertainty: the need for an ethical debate Sustainability: The ethos of landscape architecture in the twenty-first century Social sustainability The right to landscape Green infrastructure Landscape urbanism Conclusion Notes Bibliography Chapter 18 Coupling environmental and sociocultural sustainability for better design: a case study of Emirati neighbourhoods and landscape The concept of sustainability The case study: Abu Dhabi and the Gulf Cooperation Council states on the Arabian Peninsula Emirati villa neighbourhoods Sociocultural aspects of Emirati neighbourhoods The need for the coupling of sociocultural and environmental sustainability Deriving inspiration from traditional urban form and landscape Conclusion Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Chapter 19 Planning with heritage: a critical debate across landscape architecture practice and heritage theory How heritage moved to centre stage in landscape architecture, and changed in the process Heritage as development driver: ‘Steely Town’ Frederiksværk, Denmark Integrating natural and cultural heritage: Aire River Garden, Switzerland Dissonant heritage under construction: Castle Garden, Berlin New roles for landscape architects and landscape architecture Landscape-based approaches to new heritage Beyond natural and cultural heritage values Exposing dissonances Notes Bibliography Chapter 20 The case to save socialist space: soviet residential landscapes under threat of extinction Foundations of socialist space Housing combine/zhilkombinat Microregion/mikroraion Socialist spatiality in the post-socialist period: What is to be done? Notes Bibliography Part V Philosophy of landscape architecture: knowledge, practice and education Chapter 21 Imaginaries in landscape architecture Utopias and dystopias F ailed utopias Past, present and future imaginaries The Pastoral Edgelands Deception and delusion Shaping the imaginary Notes Bibliography Chapter 22 Whose city is it?: public space as agent of change in marginalized settlements in Buenos Aires The ‘otherness’ of informal urban settlements Public space as a catalyst for socio-territorial urban integration Public space design components for socio-territorial urban integration processes Notes Bibliography Chapter 23 Khôrographos: space-scripting Choral works: City and landscape Khô ra, khortus, hortus: From chasm to garden Yard/yarn Recuperation Notes Bibliography Chapter 24 Towards new research methodologies in design: shifting inquiry away from the unequivocal towards the ambiguous Philosophical underpinning The sense datum theory of perception The impact of these dichotomies Ramifications The rule of rationalism The alternative Embracing ambiguity What makes a good researcher? Conclusion Notes Bibliography Chapter 25 A conversation on education Samantha L. Martin-McAuliffe (University College Dublin, Ireland) Anne Bordeleau (University of Waterloo, Canada) Torben Dam (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Lilli Lič ka (Universitä t fü r Bodenkultur Wien, Austria) Alan Tate (University of Manitoba, Canada) Tom Nielsen (Arkitektskolen Aarhus, Denmark) Inge Bobbink (Technische Universiteit Delft, the Netherlands) David Grahame Shane (Columbia University, USA) Catharina Dyrssen (Chalmers Sweden) Maggie Roe (Newcastle University, UK) Notes Bibliography Index