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The Culture of Cultivation: Recovering the Roots of Landscape Architecture book cover

1st Edition

The Culture of Cultivation Recovering the Roots of Landscape Architecture

Edited By Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto Copyright 2021
236 Pages 116 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

236 Pages 116 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

236 Pages 116 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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By seeking to rediscover the profession's agricultural roots, this volume proposes a 21st-century shift in thinking about landscape architecture that is no longer driven by binary oppositions, such as urban and rural; past and present; aesthetics and ecology; beautiful and productive, but rather prioritizes a holistic and cross-disciplinary framing. The illustrated collection of essays written... Read more

Introduction

The Culture of Cultivation: Designing and Writing the Landscape

Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto


PART I

Contemporary Practices and Conservation

1. The Practice of Cultivation: A Dialogue of Beauty, Conservation, and Productivity through Design

Thomas L. Woltz

2. Landscape Design and Agriculture: A Mexican Perspective

Mario Schjetnan

3. Productive Conservation for Resilient Urban Regions and Agricultural Hinterlands: Linking Mexico City’s Appetite to Watersheds and Landscapes

Flavio Sciaraffia


PART II

Design and Urban Agriculture

4. The Urban Changes Everything about Agriculture

Laura Lawson and Meredith Taylor

5. Productive Green Community Space: A Challenge for the Contemporary Israeli City

Tal Alon-Mozes


PART III

Histories of Productive Landscapes

6. "L’utile à l’agréable": Planting the Early Modern French Garden

Elizabeth Hyde

7. The "Three Natures": Culture and Cultivation in 18th-Century England

Tom Williamson


PART IV

Preserving the Cultural Landscape

8. Maclura pomifera and the Making of an American Middle: A Case Study

MK Smaby and Carolyn Wheeler – Prairie Studio

9. Cultivating Design: Resilience (and Beauty?) through Adapting Inherited Landscapes

Graham Fairclough

 

Notes

Index

Biography

Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto is a landscape historian and critic. Her scholarly research explores both the world of contemporary landscape architecture and that of early modern gardens and landscapes. She is the author of Medici Gardens: From Making to Design (2008), for which she received the 2010 Society of Architectural Historians’ Elisabeth Blair MacDougall Book Award, and the editor of Foreign Trends in American Gardens: A History of Exchange, Adaptation, and Reception (2017).

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