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A Landscape Urbanism approach to landscape architecture | S1 E3

A Landscape Urbanism approach to landscape architecture | S1 E3

FromCITY as LANDSCAPE architecture


A Landscape Urbanism approach to landscape architecture | S1 E3

FromCITY as LANDSCAPE architecture

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Length:
39 minutes
Released:
Jan 9, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

This podcast is based on the first chapter of a book by Tom Turner published in 1996: City as landscape.  The chapter's title was post-Postmodernism but  if the term Landscape Urbanism had had its present use in 1995 it would have been included. 
The ‘layering’ aspect of Landscape Urbanism derives from Ian McHarg and his use of reason was certainly affected by his beliefs. McHarg was anti-Christian, sympathetic to Buddhism and a great believer in the importance of conserving nature. Me too.
Conservation wasn’t an aspect of either Modernism or Postmodernism.  But it’s built-in to Landscape Urbanism, which we should therefore classify as post-Postmodern. If revising  this chapter, I’d change most occurrences of the word ‘religion’ to ‘beliefs’, for the reasons explained in my book on Asian Gardens: History, Beliefs and Design  (Routledge, 2011).
Released:
Jan 9, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (24)

Tom Turner is the author of books, eBooks, blogs and videos on urban design, garden design and landscape design - including a book on City as Landscape. He publishes selections from books and other material as podcasts. They deal with the history, theory, position and prospects for what Geoffrey Jellicoe called 'the most comprehensive of the arts': landscape architecture.