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Making the Metropolitan Landscape

Standing Firm on Middle Ground

Edited by Jacqueline Tatom

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About the Book

This volume brings together for the first time many well known and emerging voices in urban design theory and practice, to argue for a progressive and engaged design practice which speaks to the complexity and diversity of American cities.

Recognising that the landscape of the American city has always reflected democratic aspirations, the plurality of its cultural heritage, and the pragmatism of its intellectual tradition, this book proposes new frameworks for describing and interpreting today’s metropolitan landscape.

Table of Contents

Introduction Jacqueline Tatom Part 1: Towards a Metropolitan Landscape: Interpreting American Cities 1. The Transformation and Design of the American City Peter Rowe 2. The Landscape of Comedy Jacqueline Tatom and Andrea Kahn 3. Landscape Urbanism and the American Agrarian Tradition Charles Waldheim 4. The Uses of History Eric Mumford 5. Urbanism by Numbers: A Quantitative Approach to Urban Form Anne Vernez Moudon and Chanam Lee Part 2: Towards a Metropolitan Urbanism - Democratic aspirations, American Pragmatism and Design Practice 6. Pragmatism as Urban Design Gwendolyn Wright 7. Democracy and Design Hashim Sarkis 8. Bowling Alone and Bowling in Groups Alan Plattus 9. Multiplicity Ed Robbins Part 3: Making the Metropolitan Landscape: "Best Urbanism" Practices 10. Designing Cities of Learning Roy Strickland and Edwin Duroy 11. Drawing, Persuasion, Politics: a Case Study in the California Delta Jane Wolff Part 4: Programs for a Metropolitan Landscape 12. Foundations of Place-making: Wind Power Rhode Island & The One River Project Charlie Cannon 13. Elements for Metropolitan Design Jacqueline Tatom and Andrea Kahn 14. Photo Essay: Searching for Identity in the Middle Ground: The Regional Strip, The Ephemeral Highway, Distinction in Landscapes of Repetition Jacqueline Tatom and Jennifer Stauber