Thompson, I. H., 2012, Ten Tenets and Six Questions for Landscape Urbanism, in: Landscape Research, 37, 1
- Author : Thompson, I. H.
- Year : 2012
- Title English : Ten Tenets and Six Questions for Landscape Urbanism
- Journal/Series : Landscape Research
- Volume Number (ANNUAL: Counting Volumes of the Year shown above) : 1
- Volume Number (CONSECUTIVE: Counting all Volumes of this Journal ever published) : 37
- Pages : 7-26
- Abstract in English : This paper offers an interpretation of Landscape Urbanism, then initiates a critical analysis. It attempts to decode the sometimes prolix language in which Landscape Urbanism is presented and to identify a number of 'tenets' which most of its adherents would hold. The second part of this paper questions some of these tenets, asking whether Landscape Urbanism's attack on the urban-rural binary is well conceived and whether it is a helpful contribution to the problems raised by worldwide urbanisation. It also considers the implications of Landscape Urbanism for other discourses, including those of heritage, landscape conservation and participatory planning and design. It concludes that there are a number of inconsistencies and lacunae which landscape urbanists ought urgently to address.