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LA+ Vitality (Paperback) Loot Price: R398
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LA+ Vitality (Paperback): Upenn Landscape Architecture

LA+ Vitality (Paperback)

Upenn Landscape Architecture

Series: LA+ Interdisciplinary Journal of Landscape Architecture

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Vitality is liveliness, to be alive. To be alive is to have the ability to harvest energy for movement, growth, and self-replication. But without health, vitality is just mechanistic. In this issue of LA+ we explore the notion of vitality as a proxy for the health of all things. We explore how design can improve the vitality of people, cities, systems, and landscapes. Articles include: - Sara Jensen-Carr explores the intertwined epidemiology of ecosystems, cities, and human bodies. - Through the intimate case study of a 15th century Roman noblewoman, historian Mirka Benes reveals the role of gardens in maintaining physical and mental health in the early modern era. - Design anthropologist Chuan Hao Chen reflects on vitality through the metaphor of the medical emergency. - Experimental psychologist Colin Ellard explores questions about the roots of our perceptions of life and agency. - Urban designer Julian Bolleter shines a light on the practice of placemaking in contemporary Dubai. - Public health scientists Billie Giles Corti, Jonathan Arundel, and Lucy Gunn explain why urban design is important in creating livable cities. - Landscape architect Clay Gruber captures a case study of the potential for renewal of a rural American landscape drained of socio-economic vitality. - Designer Colin Curley surveys the beautiful ugliness of Newtown Creek, New York's most-polluted waterway. - Biodiversity conservation scientist Andrew Gonzalez explains his multi-year research into designing a comprehensive and practicable green network for the city of Montreal and its hinterlands. - Landscape architect Jake Boswell offers a wide-ranging rumination on ecology and aesthetics. - Psychiatrist and urban health scholar Mindy Thompson Fullilove reflects upon the vitality of main streets in small-town America. - Philosopher Mark Kingwell takes on artificial intelligence in a series of provocative propositions dealing with notions of life and vitality. - Architect and urban designer Christopher Marcinkoski considers Tokyo's landscape future in the face of significant population decline. - Also includes interviews with the celebrated author of Vibrant Matter, Jane Bennett, MASS Design Group's Sierra Bainbridge, and The Nature Conservancy's lead scientist for global cities Rob MacDonald.

General

Imprint: Oro Editions
Country of origin: United States
Series: LA+ Interdisciplinary Journal of Landscape Architecture
Release date: March 2020
Authors: Upenn Landscape Architecture
Dimensions: 266 x 222mm (L x W)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 120
ISBN-13: 978-1-943532-65-0
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Theory of architecture
Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Landscape art & architecture > General
Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Applied ecology > Biodiversity
LSN: 1-943532-65-6
Barcode: 9781943532650

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