James Corner, in an essay entitled "Terra Fluxus," describes the main qualities of Landscape Urbanism:
- horizontality and sprawl in places like Los Angeles , Atlanta , Houston , San Jose , and the Suburban fringes of most American cites ''is'' the new urban reality. As many theories of urbanism attempt to ignore this fact, landscape urbanism accepts it and tries to understand it. Traditional notions of program and structure are not useful in this diffuse urban condition--their scope is small and limiting. Landscape urbanism uses 'territories' and 'potential' instead of 'program' to define a place's use; it finds thinking in terms of adaptable 'systems' instead of rigid 'structures' as a better way to organize space.
- is the traditional character of the city; formlessness characterizes nature, that which has been untouched by human intent. This city/nature duality is critical to most theories of the city and nature. Landscape urbanists argue that this is duality is naive and argue for a conflation of landscape and building.
- Almy, Dean, "Center 14: On Landscape Urbanism", The Center for American Architecture and Design, The University of Texas at Austin, 2007
- Allen, Stan . "Mat Urbanism: The Thick 2-D." ''Case: Le Corbusier's Venice Hospital and the Mat Building Revival''. Ed. Hashim Sarkis. Munich ; New York: Prestel, 2001.
- Connolly, Peter, ‘Embracing Openness: Making Landscape Urbanism Landscape Architectural: Part 1 & 2, in Raxworthy, Julian and Blood, Jessica, The Mesh Book: landscape/infrastructure, 76-103, 200-214.
- Corner, James, and Alan Balfour. ''Recovering Landscape : Essays in Contemporary Landscape Architecture''. New York, NY: Princeton Architectural Press, 1999.
- Czerniak, Julia. ''CASE--Downsview Park Toronto''. Munich ; New York; Cambridge, Mass.: Prestel; Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, 2001.
- Kerb 15 - Landscape Urbanism . This issue includes contributions from Charles Waldheim, Mohsen Mostafavi, FOA, Karres en Brands, Kongjian Yu, Kyong Park, Kathryn Gustafson, Stephen Read, Kelly Shannon, Richard Weller, Sue Anne Ware, Cesar Torres and Adrian Napoleone, Melbourne, RMIT Press, 2007.
- Koolhaas, Rem. "Atlanta." ''S,M,L,XL''. New York: Monacelli Press, 1999.
- Mostafavi, Mohsen, Ciro Najle, and Architectural Association. ''Landscape Urbanism : A Manual for the Machinic Landscape''. London: Architectural Association, 2003.
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