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DesignInquiry/

Montreal/

Design City/



DesignInquiry/

Montreal/

Design City/



Landscape

Urbanism



LU as a framework

for viewing,

analyzing andvisualizing urban

space



nature not nature

the nineteenth century

lens of difference and

opposionCorner p24



This landscape is the

city’s “other”…Corner p25



The promise of landscape

urbanism is the development of aspaceme ecology that treats all

forces and agents working in the

urban field and considers them a

connuous networks of

inter‐relaonshipsCorner p24



a spaceme ecology that

treats all forces and agents and

considers them as

a connuous network of

inter‐relaonshipsCorner



view the enre

metropolis as a livingarena of processes and

exchanges over meCorner



Moreover, it is increasingly the case that

vast developer‐engineering corporaons

are construcng today's world with suchpace, efficiency, and profit that all of the

tradional design disciplines (and not only

landscape) are marginalized as mere

decorave pracces, literally

disenfranchised from the work of spaal

formaon.Corner



Moreover, it is increasingly the case that

vast corporaons are visualizing today's

world with such pace, efficiency, and profitthat all of the convenonal design

disciplines (and not only landscape

graphics) are marginalized as mere

decorave pracces, literally

disenfranchised from the work of spaal

cultural formaon.Corner



Perhaps the very complexity of the

metabolism that drives the contemporary

metropolis demands

a conflaon of professional and

instuonalized disncons intoa new synthec art, a spao‐

material pracce able to bridge

scale and scope with crical

insight and imaginave depthCorner



4 Themes of

Landscpe

Urbanismas per

James Corner



By way of providing a schemac outline for such a pracce, I can

sketch four provisional themes:

‐ processes over me‐ the staging of surfaces

‐ the operaonal or working method

‐ the imaginaryCorner



e•col•o•gy ¦ikäləjē¦

noun- the branch of biology that deals with

the relations of organisms to one

another and to their physicalsurroundings.

-

(also human ecology ) the study of the interaction of people with their

environment.



cies and infrastructures are

just as "ecological" as forestsand rivers



Los Angeles River, California

this is a watershed



The designa9on terra firma (firm, not

changing; fixed and definite) gives way in

avor of the shiDing processes coursingthrough and across the urban field:

terra fluxus.Corner



theme 1

Processes over me: urbaniza)on is a dynamic process

characterized more by terms like fluidity,

spontaneous feedback, and non‐linearity ,than stability, predictability, or ra)onality.

Ecology and systems theory are concepts

inherent to the city .Corner



theme 1

Processes over me:

urbaniza)on is a dynamic process

characterized more by terms like fluidity,

spontaneous feedback, and non‐linearity , than stability, predictability, or

ra)onality. Ecology and systems theory

are concepts inherent to the city .Corner



theme 1

Processes over me:



Much of the world looked

different not all that long ago

Santa Monica California

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemology




An Epistemological Problem:

How did we get here?








An Epistemological Problem:

How did we get here?

Historical Amnesia?






theme 1

Processes over me: City as Palimpsest

(Sequence Occupancy)



theme 1





theme 2

Surface: The second theme of the landscape urbanism

project concerns itself with the phenomenon of

the horizontal surface, the ground plane, the"field" of acon. These surfaces cons)tute the

urban field when considered across a wide

range of scales, from the sidewalk to the street

to the en)re infrastructural matrix of urban

surfaces.Corner



Paern



theme 2

Surface: The second theme of the landscape

urbanism project concerns itself with the

phenomenon of the horizontal surface,the ground plane, the "field" of acon.

These surfaces cons)tute the urban field

when considered across a wide range of scales, from the sidewalk to the street

to the en)re infrastructural matrix of



theme 2

Surface: The second theme of the landscape urbanism

project concerns itself with the phenomenon

of the horizontal surface, the ground plane,the "field" of acon. These surfaces cons)tute

the urban field when considered across a wide

range of scales, from the sidewalk to thestreet to the en)re infrastructural matrix of

urban surfaces.Corner



theme 3

operaon/working methods:landscape urbanism a suggests a reconsidera)on of tradi)onal conceptual,representa)onal, and opera)ve techniques.

The possibili+es of vast scale shi1s across both +me and space,

working synopc maps along side the inmate recordings of local

circumstance,

comparing cinemac and choreographic techniques to spaal notaon,

entering the algebraic, digital space of the computer while messing around

with paint, clay, and ink,

and engaging real estate developers and engineers alongside the highly

specialized imagineers and poets of contemporary cultureCorner



theme 4

the imaginary:imaginaon and speculaonPublic spaces are firstly the containers of collec+ve memory and

desire, and secondly they are the places for geographic and social

imagina+on to extend new rela)onships and sets of possibility.Materiality, representa)on, and imagina)on are not separate

worlds; poli)cal change through prac)ces of place construc)on

owes as much to the representa+onal and symbolic realms as to

material ac)vi)es. And so it seems landscape urbanism is first and

last an imagina)ve project, a specula)ve thickening of the world

of possibili)es.Corner



theme 4

the imaginary:



Visualizing the Landscape




Vi li i h L d




Vi li i th L d



Buried Waters/

Islais Creek

Atlas ProjectSan Francisco State University

Design + Art + Geography



Technoligical

Blitzkrieg



Fin



Fin

Layering Rhythm



Layering

Categorizaon

HierarchySystem

Theme

SequenceSymbols & Icons

Signs (i.e. semiocs)

the Graphic Word

Rhythm

Tempo

RepeonPaern

Density

ContrastProximity

Alignment

Layering Rhythm



Layering

Categorizaon

HierarchySystem

Theme



the Graphic Word

Rhythm

Tempo

RepeonPaern

Density

ContrastProximity

Alignment

Layering Rhythm



Layering

Categorizaon

HierarchySystem

Theme



the Graphic Word

Rhythm

Tempo

RepeonPaern

Density

ContrastProximity

Alignment



Paern



Rhytm/Cycles

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