Thinking the Contemporary Landscape

Thinking the Contemporary Landscape by Girot, Christophe. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781616895204.

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.