Waldheim, Charles (2006) ‘Introduction: A reference manifesto’

Waldheim, Charles (2006) ‘Introduction: A reference manifesto’, in Charles Waldheim (ed.) The landscape urbanism reader; New York: Princeton Architecture Press, pp11-18.

‘Landscape Urbanism describes a disciplinary realignment currently underway in which landscape replaces architecture as the basic building block of contemporary urbanism. For many, across a range of disciplines, landscape has become both the lens through which the contemporary city is represented and the medium through which it is constructed.’

- the architecture of the contemporary city is based upon leisure and tourism, commodified as a cultural product excelling their architectural differences and identity of each city, but because of this tendency the architecture of cities becomes more and more indistinguishable. Part of the decentralisation, decreasing the density of the north American cities. Landscape refinds its relevance here!
- Reference manifesto: emergent conditions before clarifying sources
- James Corner: intellectual and practical underpinnings of the landscape urbanism agenda: 4 interpractical themes: ecological and urban processes over time, staging of horizontal surfaces, working method, imaginary.
- Grahame Shane: institutions and individuals in the discourse.
- Richard Weller: landscape urbanism in relation to de-industrialisation, infrastructure and rapidly changing commodification of the traditional urban realm.
- Christophe Girot: new modes of representation, time-based media.
- Julia Czerniak: the site! What is the site as complex apparatus for the design process.
- Linda Polak: landscapes according to their social and scalar dimension.
- Kelly Shannon: rise of landscape urbanism in Europe, especially as a tool to prevent the commodification of the urban form.
- Elisabeth Mossop: relationships between landscape and urban infrastructure.
- Jacqeline Tatom: the urban highway as a locus for landscape practice.
- Alan Berger: drosscapes: coming to terms with the enormous left abanodones territories, in broader waste management terms.
- Clare Lyster: changing scale of economy.