ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. Emerging Landscapes interrogates the category of landscape by engaging with various discourses and practices that operate at the intersection between the spatial and the visual. Operating in the interstices 'between buildings, infrastructural systems, and natural ecologies, landscape Urbanism advocated a more holistic approach to cities and their forgotten 'natures'. One must also be aware of the risks of widening the discursive framework to the point where landscape becomes an allen compassing conceptual umbrella, in DeLue's words, a 'theory that must account for everything'. The idea that landscape arises out of the strategic interconnection between visual and spatial practices is a conceptual cornerstone of the term itself. This tension has been articulated in different ways by landscape theorists. James Corner, for instance, has approached landscape as the intersection of 'spatial milieu and cultural image'.
