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

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... Read more

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.