Thinking the Contemporary Landscape

About this book

On the heels of our groundbreaking books in landscape architecture James Corners Recovering Landscape and Charles Waldheims Landscape Urbanism Reader comes another essential reader . Examining our shifting perceptions of nature and place in the context of environmental challenges and how these affect urbanism and architecture the seventeen essayists in argue for an all-encompassing view of landscape that integrates the scientific intellectual aesthetic and mythic into a new multidisciplinary understanding of the contemporary landscape. A must-read for anyone concerned about the changing nature of our landscape in a time of climate crisis.