1st Edition
Making the Metropolitan Landscape Standing Firm on Middle Ground
The American landscape is an extremely complex terrain born from a history of collective and individual experiences. These created environments, which all may be called metropolitan landscapes, constantly challenge students and professionals in the fields of architecture, design and planning to consider new ways of making lively public places. This book brings together varied voices in urban design theory and practice to explore new ways of understanding place and our position in it.
Introduction Jacqueline Tatom Part 1: Towards a Metropolitan Landscape: Interpreting American Cities 1. The Transformation and Design of the American City Peter Rowe 2. The Landscape of Comedy Jacqueline Tatom and Andrea Kahn 3. Landscape Urbanism and the American Agrarian Tradition Charles Waldheim 4. The Uses of History Eric Mumford 5. Urbanism by Numbers: A Quantitative Approach to Urban Form Anne Vernez Moudon and Chanam Lee Part 2: Towards a Metropolitan Urbanism - Democratic aspirations, American Pragmatism and Design Practice 6. Pragmatism as Urban Design Gwendolyn Wright 7. Democracy and Design Hashim Sarkis 8. Bowling Alone and Bowling in Groups Alan Plattus 9. Multiplicity Ed Robbins Part 3: Making the Metropolitan Landscape: "Best Urbanism" Practices 10. Designing Cities of Learning Roy Strickland and Edwin Duroy 11. Drawing, Persuasion, Politics: a Case Study in the California Delta Jane Wolff Part 4: Programs for a Metropolitan Landscape 12. Foundations of Place-making: Wind Power Rhode Island & The One River Project Charlie Cannon 13. Elements for Metropolitan Design Jacqueline Tatom and Andrea Kahn 14. Photo Essay: Searching for Identity in the Middle Ground: The Regional Strip, The Ephemeral Highway, Distinction in Landscapes of Repetition Jacqueline Tatom and Jennifer Stauber
Biography
Jacqueline Tatom was Assistant Professor of Architecture at the Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Design in the Sam Fox School of Design at Washington University in St. Louis.
Jennifer Stauber is a practicing architectural and urban designer in St. Louis, Missouri.