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The Culture of Cultivation - Recovering the Roots of Landscape Architecture (Paperback)
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The Culture of Cultivation - Recovering the Roots of Landscape Architecture (Paperback)
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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 by academics, researchers and experts in the field seeks to
balance and redirect a current approach to landscape architecture
that prioritizes a narrow definition of the regional in an effort
to tackle questions of continuous urban growth and its impact on
the environment. It argues that an emphasis on conurbation, which
occurs at the expense of the rural, often ignores the reality that
certain cultivation and management practices taking place on land
set aside for production can be as harmful to the environment as is
unchecked urbanization, contributing to loss of biodiverstiy, soil
erosion and climate change. By contrast, the book argues that by
expanding the expertise of design professionals to include the
productive, food systems, soil conservation and the preservation of
cultural landscapes, landscape architects would be better equipped
to participate in the stewardship of our planet. Written primarily
for landscape practitioners and academics, cultural and
environmental historians and conservationists, The Culture of
Cultivation will appeal to anyone interested in a thorough
rethinking of the role and agency of landscape architecture.
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