1st Edition

Transformative Ground A Field Guide to the Post-Industrial Landscape

By Ross Mclean Copyright 2019
    234 Pages 129 Color Illustrations
    by Routledge

    234 Pages 129 Color Illustrations
    by Routledge

    Aimed at students and instructors, alongside practitioners and researchers, in landscape architecture and its allied disciplinary fields, this book provides the reader with a clear framework of theoretical and practical considerations for interpreting and designing post-industrial landscapes. One of the biggest contemporary challenges currently faced in the profession is how to effectively understand and work with the transformational possibilities of post-industrial landscapes, while negotiating significant spatial challenges, such as degradation and fragmentation.

    Transformative Ground: A Field Guide to the Post-Industrial Landscape presents a range of theoretical perspectives and practical approaches, offering a broad scope of contemporary design strategies that deal with post-industrial landscapes. Through a series of thematic chapters, allied with precedents from leading design offices, this book identifies how the context of post-industrial landscapes has compelled shifts in fundamental ideas that underpin landscape design. As a richly illustrated account of this transformative ground, this book provides a must-have guide to help you reimagine the post-industrial landscape.

    Chapter 1 Relinquishing Control

    Chapter 2 The Agency of the Wild

    Chapter 3 A Menacing Dragon

    Chapter 4 The Entanglement

    Chapter 5 Everyday Aesthetics

    Chapter 6 Transitional Urbanism

    Chapter 7 The Mesh and the Matrix

    Chapter 8 Relational Scales

    Chapter 9 Enlivened Temporality

    Biography

    Ross Mclean is a Lecturer in Landscape Architecture at the University of Edinburgh, UK.