$20 Landscape architecture essay due on April 23rd!!
LAA • 5235
Professor Juan Antonio Bueno
Florida International University School of Architecture
Theory of Landscape Architecture
Charles Waldheim. 2016 Landscape as Urbanism: A General Theory Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press
LAA • 5235
book 3
CHARLES WALDHEIM page 88
module 9
CHARLES WALDHEIM page 50
CHARLES WALDHEIM page 107
CHARLES WALDHEIM page 69
CHARLES WALDHEIM
Three: Planning, Ecology, Emergence of Landscape page 50
particular topics to consider
How does ecology as design strategy differ from ecology
as natural science? How may nature be a cultural construct?
How can landscape urbanism be “socially engaged,
environmentally informed, and culturally literate”?
What are the brownfields of South Florida?
Is South Florida undergoing a post-industrial restructuring?
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Four: Post-Fordist Economies & Logistics of Landscape page 69
particular topics to consider
Is the megalopolis of southeast Florida a dystopia? How so?
Which are its redundant forms?
What new landscapes are needed for logistical networks
in South Florida?
What is the contemporary equivalent
of the standardized shipping container?
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Five: Urban Crisis and the Origins fo Landscape page 88
particular topics to consider
Was there ever or is there now an urban South Florida?
What is or will be the disabitato of South Florida?
Is landscape a genre of painting or theatrical stage decoration
in all cultures? What is it in your culture?
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Six: Urban Order and Structural Change page 107
particular topics to consider
Can landscape and transportation infrastructure
replace the role of architecture in the urban order of the city?
Is Lafayette Park a viable model for the overpopulation
as well as the decentralization and dissipation of South Florida?
Is the urban grid incompatible with social equity and ecological
performance in the city? Can there be a city without streets?
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