Making a Middle Landscape

Peter G. Rowe

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Langue : anglais

Edité par The MIT Press, 1991

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Large-format volume, measuring approximately 8.25" x 10.75", is bound in light blue cloth, with stamped black lettering to spine. Book is in fine condition. Binding is firm. Interior is clean and bright. Text appears in double columns. Dust jacket is also in fine condition and preserved in mylar cover. 325 pages. "Today's suburban metropolitan development of single-family homes, shopping centers, corporate offices, and roadway systems constitutes what Peter Rowe calls a "middle landscape" between the city and the countryside. While others have written about this phenomenon from the point of view of sociology or cultural geography, Rowe looks closely at suburban America in terms of design and physical planning. He builds a case for a new way of seeing and building suburbia, complete with theoretical underpinnings and a basis for design. The directions Rowe pursues are threefold: what has actually been built since 1920, as simple arrangements of land, buildings, and infrastructure have been transformed into complex multi-use centers; the mythic themes, metaphors, and attitudes driving the production of important cultural artifacts like the home and the workplace; and the definition of design principles for this new landscape. Rowe looks first at how suburban expansion has altered the land, at the new spatio-cultural mosaic that has emerged and taken the place of the traditional city. He then examines four cultural artifacts - the house and its garden; the retail realm of roadside franchises and commercial strips, shopping villages and malls; the modern workplace of office parks and corporate estates; and the roadway that has become an essential link to all of these. Running throughout, he notes, is a story of technical planning and mass production where, paradoxically, rational excesses are often cloaked in romantic imagery. He concludes by proposing - and illustrating with numerous examples - a symbolic construct of "modern pastoralism" that juxtaposes the idea of arcadian simplicity and value against the modern technical temperament. Peter G. Rowe is Raymond Garbe Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at Harvard University and Chairman of the Department of Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He is author of "Design Thinking.".

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Titre
Making a Middle Landscape
Auteur
Peter G. Rowe
Éditeur
The MIT Press
Année de publication
1991
État de l'article
Fine
Jaquette
Fine
Reliure
Hardcover
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
026218138X
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9780262181389
Édition
1st Edition

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