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A critical account of the design methods used by landscape architects since c1860. Classified as Modern, Postmodern and Post-postmodern, they include craft design, design-by-drawing, Survey-Analysis-Design, Landscape Urbanism, Geodesign and Ecological Urbanism. The length (19,300 words) is about that of a two chapters in a print book. Tom Turner is a landscape architect, a garden historian and the author of printed books on these subjects (available Amazon).
Contents
PART 1
Introduction
PART 2 Design methods: Mo, PoMo and PoPoMo
1. Context-sensitive landscape architecture
2. Aims of landscape architecture
3. Landscape architecture theory
4. Design theories
5. Mo, PoMo and PoPoMo art
6. Modern Landscape Architecture Theory
7. Postmodern Landscape Design
8. Post-postmodern Landscape Design
9. On values
10. MANIFESTO
PART 3 Landscape design and planning methods
1. Design methods
2. Pre-modern design methods
3. Modern design methods
4. Post-Fordist design
5. Fordism and the built environment
6. Knowledge-intensive planning
7. Designing a resort in Hawaii
8. Planning London’s river landscape
PART 4 Layered landscape design
1. Structuralism, design-by-layers, GIS and Geodesign
2. The birth of the urban planner
3. The death of The Planner
4. The birth of the landscape layerer
5. Landscape planning-by-layers
6. The life of landscape and urban planning
7. Geodesign
APPENDIX: Note on related eBooks