Urban Landscape Perspectives [Paperback]

Urban Landscape Perspectives explores how landscape terminology can be usefully brought into the urban debate. The articles are by scholars who have a particular interest in and experience of the city project at various operative scales. They include theoretical reflections on the landscape as an eminently project-like figure. The book describes new methods and approaches dealing with the contemporary environment, whether it is from the point of view of the city or the landscape.

Urban Landscape Perspectives: Landscape Project, City Project.- Thinking over Urban Landscapes, Interpretations and Courses of Action.- Landscape, Live Nature. Towards the Construction of the Image of the Landscape in the West.- Landscape as a Regenerative Structure of a Fragmented Territory.- The Influence of the Landscape on the Identity of Urban Space.- [Centrality] and/or Cent][rality: a Matter of Placing the Boundaries.- Urban Landscape and an Ecology of Creativity.- Three Metaphors for the Next Landscape.- Index.- Name Index.

Giovanni MACIOCCO obtained a degree in Engineering at the University of Pisa and in Architecture at the University of Florence. He is Full Professor of Town and Regional Planning, Director of the Department of Architecture and Planning and Dean of the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Sassari. He is Director of the International Laboratory on the Environmental Project . His main field of research is urban and territorial space planning. Several of his architectural and urban space projects have been published in specialist books, international journals and publications. Among his recent works, the following deserve a mention: La pianificazione ambientale del paesaggio, (FrancoAngeli, 1991); La citt?, la mente, il piano, (FrancoAngeli, 1994); La citt? in ombra, (FrancoAngeli, 1996); Les lieux de leau et de la terre, (Lybra Immagine, 1998); Wastelands (Dedalo, 2000); Territorio e progetto. Prospettive di ricerca orientate in sl3t