$20 Landscape architecture essay due on April 23rd!!

Charles Waldheim Landscape Urbanism: A General Theory Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press

LAA • 5235

book 3

ESSAY ON LANDSCAPE URBANISM

module 14

Essay 3 Landscape urbanism

The essay module consists of research and writing that must address landscape urbanism as studied in modules 11 through 13. The topic must be the relevance of landscape urbanist theory today for the critical practice of urban design or landscape architecture—not art, poetry, music, or architecture, though these may be appropriately referenced in the text.

The essay must be an analytical and critical, not just descriptive, response to the topic. The descriptive introduction should chronicle the topic (about half a page). The analysis should address the milieu of the topic (about a page). The critique should focus on the positive and negative aspects of the topic (about a page). The conclusion should summarize the topic (about half a page). Use the citations to support the analysis and critique, not ordinary, descriptive information.

The text should be structured as an essay with introduction, body, and conclusion. The length of the essay must be 750 words (double spaced), excluding citations, quotations, and illustrations. The style of the essay, including the citations of sources using footnotes without bibliography or list of references, must follow The Chicago Manual of Style. The footnotes should be keyed to the text with superscripts. Printable size is 8½ by 11 inches, vertical format.

The required minimum number of chapter sources cited from the study modules is four. If appropriate, other scholarly and professional sources may be used as sources, but they do not count toward the required minimum number of sources.

Descriptive aspects of the essay— the who, what, when, where, as they relate to the topic—one fifth of grade. Analytical aspects of the essay—the why, what for, due to what, as they relate to the topic—one fifth of grade. Critical aspects of the essay—the how well, how significant, as they relate to the topic—one fifth of grade. Writing aspects of the essay—spelling, syntax, length, structure—one fifth of grade. Sources for the essay—appropriateness and correctness of citations—one fifth of grade (see samples below).

Geoffrey and Susan Jellicoe, The Landscape of Man (New York: Thames & Hudson, 1998), [page number if quote].

Elizabeth Meyer, “Situating Modern Landscape Architecture” in Theory in Landscape Architecture: A Reader (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002), 21–31 [page number if quote].

Lawrence Halprin, “Design as a Value System,” Places: A Quarterly Journal of Environmental Design 6 (1): 60–67 [page number if quote].

Same as above, but add Uniform Resource Locator (URL). Also, add date accessed, if time-sensitive information.

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