Last year a conference on landscape urbanism was held at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. One of the guest speakers was the American Chris Waldheim, who is well known as one of the founders of this originally American movement. He showed impressive pictures of impressive developments: the rise and fall of large industrial cities like Detroit and Cleveland. What started as a success story for Ford ended in a drama for many, and empty and deserted urban areas whose photos combine a poetic beauty mixed with a profound feeling of desperation. Waldheim presented new directions in the approach to these empty cities, one in which landscape and landscape architecture make a substantial contribution.
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