ABSTRACT

The American landscape is an extremely complex terrain born from a history of collective and individual experiences. These created environments, which all may be called metropolitan landscapes, constantly challenge students and professionals in the fields of architecture, design and planning to consider new ways of making lively public places. This book brings together varied voices in urban design theory and practice to explore new ways of understanding place and our position in it.

part |2 pages

PART ONE TOWARDS A METROPOLITAN LANDSCAPE

chapter 1|16 pages

The spatial transformation and restructuring of american cities

ByPeter G. Rowe

chapter 2|10 pages

It’s time for comedy

ByJacqueline Tatom, edited by Andrea Kahn

chapter 3|18 pages

Agrarian urbanism and the aerial subject

ByCharles Waldheim

chapter 4|10 pages

The uses of history in urban design

ByEric Mumford

chapter 5|22 pages

Urbanism by numbers: A quantitative approach to urban form

ByAnne Vernez Moudon, Chanam Lee

part |2 pages

PART TWO TOWARDS A METROPOLITAN URBANISM

chapter 6|16 pages

Practicing pragmatism in urban metropolitan design

ByGwendolyn Wright

chapter 7|6 pages

Flexibility to resilience: Directions for contemporary practice

ByHashim Sarkis

chapter 8|16 pages

Planning the city multiple

ByEd Robbins

chapter 9|12 pages

Citizenship and architecture: Notes on the order of the American city

ByAlan J. Plattus

part |2 pages

PART THREE MAKING THE METROPOLITAN LANDSCAPE

chapter 11|10 pages

Drawing, persuasion, politics: A case study in the California Delta

ByCalifornia Delta Jane Wolff

chapter 12|10 pages

Urban decisions/urban designs

ByCharlie Cannon

chapter 13|20 pages

Beijing sketchbook

ByJames Wines

part |2 pages

PART FOUR PROGRAMS FOR A METROPOLITAN URBANISM

chapter 14|8 pages

Programs for a metropolitan urbanism

ByJacqueline Tatom, edited by Andrea Kahn