Contemporary social and environmental conditions pose significant challenges to normative design practices, stemming as they do from an increasing scarcity of resources and consequent shifts in economic, political and material processes. Landscape Urbanism sets out to develop new modes of practice which directly engage with these new conditions and the ways in which they continiously reconfigure the city. Landscape Urbanism's methodology is multidisciplinary by definition. Expanding from the legacy of landscape design to consider the complexity of contemporary urban dynamics, it integrates knowledge and techniques from such disciplines as environmental engineering, urban strategy, lansdcape ecology, the development industry and architecture. (read less)

Contemporary social and environmental conditions pose significant challenges to normative design practices, stemming as they do from an increasing scarcity of resources and consequent shifts in economic, political and material processes. Landscape Urbanism sets out to develop new modes of practice which directly engage with these new conditions and the ways in which they continiously reconfigure the city. Landscape Urbanism's methodology is multidisciplinary by definition. Expanding from the... (read more)