CITY as LANDSCAPE architecture

Global warming is influenced by the way humans plan, design and manage their cities and landscapes.  Climate-unfriendly practices are the norm. But climate-friendly landscape planning policies can and should be developed and adopted. Urban designers and rural planners need to revise their design principles with regard to climate mitigation and climate adaptation.   NASA explains that: 'R...

This podcast is based on the first chapter of a book by Tom Turner published in 1996: City as landscape .  The chapter's title was post-Postmodernism but  if the term Landscape Urbanism had had its present use in 1995 it would have been included.  The ‘layering’ aspect of Landscape Urbanism derives from Ian McHarg and his use of reason was certainly affected by his beliefs. McHarg w...

Designers are puzzled, sometimes, about whether their work is Modern, Postmodern or something else. This podcast is based on the Preface to Tom Turner's book, published in 1996, on City as Landscape: a post-Postmodern view of design and planning . It has short explanations of how Modernism , Postmodernism and post-Postmodernism have influenced urban design and landscape architecture - concluding w...

Tom Turner takes an overview of landscape architecture, urban design and garden design - their history, theory, position and prospects.  As an art, landscape architecture dates back over 12,000 years and the earliest written record over 4000 years. It was practised in Europe, South Asia and East Asia, including China and Japan. The oldest treatise containing a set of principles was written, b...