Landscape Urbanism

Urban landscape is a connective tissue in an urban city that takes one out of the hustle and bustle of everyday life to cre-

ate a new reading of the city.

Landscape Urbanism

“Nature, in the above-mentioned examples, is mostly represented by a softly undulating pastoral scene, generally considered virtuous, benevolent, and soothing, a moral as well as practical antidote to the corrosive environmental and social qualities of the modern city. This landscape is the city’s “other,” its essential complement drawn from a nature outside of and excluding

building, technology, and infrastructure.” - James Corner

Creating a New Reading of the City

“These efforts have not only preserved older buildings but also made our heritage a more visible and integrative element of our urban environment.” - Paul M. Bray

Landscape UrbanismCreating a New Reading of the City

“But beyond and behind these topics is a reality so huge we tend not to see it at all ---- what I call the drosscape, or inevitable “waste landscapes” within urbanized regions that eternally elude the overly controlled parameters, the scripted programming

elements that designers are charged with creating and accommodating in their projects.” - Alan Berger

“Contemporary landscape urbanism practises recommend the use if infrastructural systems and the public landscapes they engender as the very ordering mechanisms of the urban field itself, shaping and shifting the organization of urban settlement

and its inevitably indeterminate economic, political, and social features.” - Charles Waldheim

Landscape UrbanismCreating a New Reading of the City

The High Line - New York City

Cheonggyecheon - Seoul, South Korea Brooklyn Bridge Park- New York City

Central Park - New York City

Landscape UrbanismCreating a New Reading of the City

James Corner

Charles Waldheim

Frederick Law Olmstead

Michael Van Valkenburgh

Landscape UrbanismCreating a New Reading of the City

Analysis of New York City Green Space

Analysis of Boston Green Space

Layers of a City Vertically

Landscape UrbanismCreating a New Reading of the City

Urban Landscape as a Connective Tissue of the Layers of a City

CULTURALHISTORICAL

INFRASTRUCTURERESIDENTIAL

COMMERCIAL

Landscape UrbanismCreating a New Reading of the City

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