Grounding Landscape Urbanism and New Urbanism

摘要

Landscape Urbanism developed in response to the dispersed, organic and edgeless nature of contemporary urbanism. Twenty-first century cities appeared to more closely resemble emergent ecological processes than the traditional expression of a city as an assemblage of rigid building blocks. The white space that separated and serviced buildings in conventional figure/ground plans is inversed to create green systems that structure-rather than react-to the built city. With this approach, Landscape Urbanism challenges the template for compactness propagated by New Urbanism, which had in turn claimed city design in the 1980s from the retreat of modernism and the policy-focus of urban planning.