Environmentalism in Landscape Architecture - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0884022781 ISBN 13: 9780884022787

Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2001

Synopsis

The papers presented in this volume range from proposals for new design approaches, historical analysis of the relationship between the practice of landscape architecture and environmentalism, to the theories of early practitioners of landscape architecture imbued by an environmentalist outlook.

The issues above are addressed through topics as eclectic as the design of American zoos, the establishment of the Tennessee Valley Authority, road design and maintenance in Texas, and criticism of relationships between the words and works of select landscape architects. This volume provides a fresh approach to encounters between environmentalism and landscape architecture by reframing the issues through self-reflection instead of strategic debate.

About this title

About the Author:

Michel Conan is the former Director of Garden and Landscape Studies, Dumbarton Oaks.

Review:

More than forty years after the first signs of a new era in environmental thinking, landscape architects and the public at large continue to engage in ethical, practical, and metaphysical debates on what environmentalism really is and what it should be. This exchange of ideas has been characterized more by passion than by clarity, with definitive and persuasive answers hard to come by.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0884022781
• ISBN 13: 9780884022787
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 292
• Editor: Conan Michel