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The bulldozing of an irregular topography into a flat site is clearly a technocratic gesture which aspires to a condition of absolute placelessness, whereas the terracing of the same site to receive the stepped form of a building is an engagement in the act of "cultivating" the site. - Page 143
Interdisciplinarity is not the calm of an easy security; it begins effectively... when the solidarity of the old disciplines breaks down—perhaps even violently, via the jolts of fashion—in the interests of a new object and a new language... - Page 15
form of connection that can make a unity of two different elements, under certain conditions." - Page 128
it is now recognized that people have multiple identities, then the same point can be made in relation to places. - Page 128
is an annual death toll comparable to the casualties of a bloody war, beyond calculation in dollar terms. It approaches - Page 253
is an 'intermediate' description [of reality] that lies somewhere between the two alienating images of a deterministic world and an arbitrary world of pure chance."' - Page 203
My idea of paradise is a perfect automobile going thirty miles an hour on a smooth road to a twelfth-century cathedral. - Page 262
locational movement—the bringing of the product to the market, which is a necessary condition of its circulation, except when the point of production is - Page 236
13. Immanuel Kant, Critique of Judgment, trans. Werner S. Pluhar (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1987), - Page 139
See Wenche E. Dramstad, James D. Olson, and Richard TT Forman, Landscape Ecology Principles in Landscape Architecture and LandUse Planning (Cambridge, - Page 53
Cover:
The Landscape Urbanism Reader
+ By Charles Waldheim
+ Published 2006
+ Princeton Architectural
+ Press
+ 293 pages
+ ISBN 1568984391