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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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