The Culture of Cultivation: Recovering the Roots of Landscape Architecture

1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-35641-5
Verlag: ROUTLEDGE

Buch, Englisch, 236 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 540 g

By seeking to rediscover the profession's agricultural roots, this volume proposes a 21st-century shift in thinking about landscape architecture that is no longer driven by binary oppositions, such as urban and rural; past and present; aesthetics and ecology; beautiful and productive, but rather prioritizes a holistic and cross-disciplinary framing.

The illustrated collection of essays written by academics, researchers and experts in the field seeks to balance and redirect a current approach to landscape architecture that prioritizes a narrow definition of the regional in an effort to tackle questions of continuous urban growth and its impact on the environment. It argues that an emphasis on conurbation, which occurs at the expense of the rural, often ignores the reality that certain cultivation and management practices taking place on land set aside for production can be as harmful to the environment as is unchecked urbanization, contributing to loss of biodiverstiy, soil erosion and climate change. By contrast, the book argues that by expanding the expertise of design professionals to include the productive, food systems, soil conservation and the preservation of cultural landscapes, landscape architects would be better equipped to participate in the stewardship of our planet.

Written primarily for landscape practitioners and academics, cultural and environmental historians and conservationists, The Culture of Cultivation will appeal to anyone interested in a thorough rethinking of the role and agency of landscape architecture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Giannetto, Raffaella Fabiani

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Garten- und Landschaftsarchitektur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

The Culture of Cultivation: Designing and Writing the Landscape

Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto

PART I

Contemporary Practices and Conservation

1. The Practice of Cultivation: A Dialogue of Beauty, Conservation, and Productivity through Design

Thomas L. Woltz

2. Landscape Design and Agriculture: A Mexican Perspective

Mario Schjetnan

3. Productive Conservation for Resilient Urban Regions and Agricultural Hinterlands: Linking Mexico City’s Appetite to Watersheds and Landscapes

Flavio Sciaraffia

PART II

Design and Urban Agriculture

4. The Urban Changes Everything about Agriculture

Laura Lawson and Meredith Taylor

5. Productive Green Community Space: A Challenge for the Contemporary Israeli City

Tal Alon-Mozes

PART III

Histories of Productive Landscapes

6. "L’utile à l’agréable": Planting the Early Modern French Garden

Elizabeth Hyde

7. The "Three Natures": Culture and Cultivation in 18th-Century England

Tom Williamson

PART IV

Preserving the Cultural Landscape

8. Maclura pomifera and the Making of an American Middle: A Case Study

MK Smaby and Carolyn Wheeler – Prairie Studio

9. Cultivating Design: Resilience (and Beauty?) through Adapting Inherited Landscapes

Graham Fairclough



Notes

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto is a landscape historian and critic. Her scholarly research explores both the world of contemporary landscape architecture and that of early modern gardens and landscapes. She is the author of Medici Gardens: From Making to Design (2008), for which she received the 2010 Society of Architectural Historians’ Elisabeth Blair MacDougall Book Award, and the editor of Foreign Trends in American Gardens: A History of Exchange, Adaptation, and Reception (2017).