Comments on: Landscapes Can Be Open-ended

By: Adriana Saccone

Adriana Saccone — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 00:04:05 +0000

D Andrews, estoy en un todo de acuerdo contigo. Soy Paisajista y tengo un Estudio de Arquitectura y Paisaje con un arquitecto y una ayudante arquitecta.
Tu opinión es sensible y justa¡
Acuerdo en todo.
Adriana Saccone

By: D Andrews

D Andrews — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 11:02:20 +0000

I am a L.A. myself and fully believe in the need for greenspace and parks, sustainable drainage, etc., but to frame New Urbanism and Landscape Urbanism as polar opposites, seems to be only about landscape architects trying to become the dominating force behind urban ideology. Its as if we think its our turn to be king. I think the process of place-making is far more complex and to think realistically about long term global sustainability and community cohesion, we need not focus on high minded ideology. Rather we ought to use our expertise and understanding of ecology, human scaled spaces, etc. and get to working with all design fields and communities to create neighborhoods of realistically priced houses for all people to live in, easy access to human scaled greenspaces, and whatever it takes to promote a little bit of interaction with your neighbor. I am fearful landscape architects will jump on the bandwagon of landscape urbanism because it sounds cool and uses big words. New Urbanism seems pretty rationally minded when applied to trying to regenerate and improve town centers and cities. Not so much of a fan of they ol’ gated communities i must say, but hey, you can’t win em all…

By: raquel penalosa architecte du paysage

raquel penalosa architecte du paysage — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 17:03:52 +0000

In reading the purpose of the book and the perspective brought by North, I can not but support this approach, long missing from the driven “form” oriented practice of landscape architecture for the last decade. It certainly requires a much more subtile and humble position to respond to this flexibility but I believe is the only response to embrace the lost leadership of landscape architecture on the current and future transformation of our cities, neighborhoods.