1st Edition

Making the Metropolitan Landscape Standing Firm on Middle Ground

Edited By Jacqueline Tatom, Jennifer Stauber Copyright 2009
    256 Pages
    by Routledge

    256 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.