Research Catalog

Title

Landscape paradigms and post-urban spaces : a journey through the regions of landscape / Roberto Pasini.

Author

Pasini, Roberto (Professor of architecture)

Publication

Cham, Switzerland : Springer, ©2019.

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Details

Description

xxiv, 226 pages : color illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

This book presents: 1) an urban-studies panorama on the emergence of a built/landscape continuum following the anthropic expansion at the geographic scale and the consequent demise of the city/country divide; 2) an in-depth theoretical analysis of disparate landscape constructs, culminating in the proposal of a comprehensive spatial paradigm addressing both manmade and natural contexts; 3) the in-situ transcription of the proposed spatial paradigm into a landscape installation implementing a territorial narrative in the Sierra Madre Oriental of Mexico. Forward by Peter G. Rowe and afterword by Elisa C. Cattaneo. By virtue of its openness, fluidity, and volatility, fluctuating between heterogeneity and diversity, today's built/landscape continuum exhibits analogies with distinct notions of landscape. The book determines an open-ended classification of contemporary space-making strategies exceeding the urban and metropolitan ambit, through a comparative anatomy of global case studies ranging from hard to soft: geotechnics or applied geographies, machinic micro-ecologies, aesthetic prostheses for operative metabolism, cybernetic utopias, atmospheric assemblages, psychic spheres, creole horizons, semiotic landscapes, geopolitical landscapes, geophilosophical excavations. The proposed spatial paradigm, accommodating aggregates of artificial and living systems, physical and mental spaces, and machinic and cultural landscapes, intends to reconcile the traditionally opposed 'scientific-cognitive-metabolist' and 'cultural-geophilosophical-territorialist' visions of the landscape. The resulting model transcends the exhausted myths of urban space, metropolitanism, and their filiations, in favor of a new form of urbanity and its attributes. Parts of the work were developed in the frame of research projects of Universidad de Monterrey and Parque Ecológico Chipinque and the IDAUP of UniFE and Polis. The target audience of the book is researchers, teachers, and advanced students engaged in landscape and urban studies with a prevalent focus on theory. The book can also benefit professional and institutional audiences looking for ethical/methodological orientation.

Series Statement

The Urban Book Series

Uniform Title

Urban book series

Subject

• Landscapes
• Urbanization
• Urbanization
• landscapes (environments)
• urbanization

Note

• "This book explores the merging of natural and man-made systems in contemporary space. It proposes to interpret the entirety of the contemporary continuum through the lens of a landscape paradigm combining scientific and cultural layers. The theoretical elaboration results in the formulation of a 'symbiotic landscape construct'."--Preface

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction: Defining a Symbiotic Field -- Metropolitanism, Its Filiations, and Its Consequences -- The Geographic Prospects of Human Habitat and the Attributes of a Novel Urbanity -- The Symbiotic Field in Ten Behaviors -- Miscegenation: Culture- and Region-Forming -- Gardens Grown Wild: In-Between Topography and Its Mythology -- Reconciling Cultural with Cognitive -- Tests for a Symbiotic Matorral -- Life and Death of '14 Strength': Agenda for the Next Landscape -- Afterword.

ISBN

• 3319778862
• 9783319778860
• 3030085643
• 9783030085643

OCLC

• on1023525112
• 1023525112
• SCSB-9393345

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library