Landscape architecture design theory and methods: Modern, Postmodern & Post-postmodern, including Landscape Ecological Urbanism & Geodesign

Landscape architecture design theory and methods: Modern, Postmodern & Post-postmodern, including Landscape Ecological Urbanism & Geodesign

A critical account of the design methods used by landscape architects since c1860. Classified as Modern, Postmodern and Post-postmodern, they include craft design, design-by-drawing, Survey-Analysis-Design, Landscape Urbanism, Geodesign and Ecological Urbanism. The length (19,300 words) is about that of a two chapters in a print book. Tom Turner is a landscape architect, a garden historian and the author of printed books on these subjects (available Amazon).<br />Contents<br />PART 1 <br />Introduction<br />PART 2 Design methods: Mo, PoMo and PoPoMo<br />1. Context-sensitive landscape architecture<br />2. Aims of landscape architecture<br />3. Landscape architecture theory<br />4. Design theories <br />5. Mo, PoMo and PoPoMo art <br />6. Modern Landscape Architecture Theory <br />7. Postmodern Landscape Design<br />8. Post-postmodern Landscape Design <br />9. On values<br />10. MANIFESTO<br />PART 3 Landscape design and planning methods<br />1. Design methods<br />2. Pre-modern design methods<br />3. Modern design methods<br />4. Post-Fordist design<br />5. Fordism and the built environment<br />6. Knowledge-intensive planning<br />7. Designing a resort in Hawaii<br />8. Planning London’s river landscape<br />PART 4 Layered landscape design <br />1. Structuralism, design-by-layers, GIS and Geodesign<br />2. The birth of the urban planner<br />3. The death of The Planner<br />4. The birth of the landscape layerer<br />5. Landscape planning-by-layers<br />6. The life of landscape and urban planning<br />7. Geodesign<br />APPENDIX: Note on related eBooks<br />