Site Matters

<p>One of the trends in twentieth century architecture and planning has been to denigrate and ignore the site or larger context (both physical and social) surrounding a building or set of buildings. </p><p>Focussing on Le Corbusier's designs <em>Site Matters</em> presents that first considered theory and vocabulary for the inevitable reaction against Modernism in planning beginning in the 1960s and swelling through the 1980s as architects and planners alike developed a new appreciation of site reincorporating the wider context into their plans.</p><p>Theoretical essays and empirically grounded pieces combine to provide the language and theory of this re-emergence of site looking at Le Corbusier's designs contemporary suburbs and the planning agendas involved at the World Trade Center site.</p><p>Groundbreaking and innovative <em>Site Matters</em> provides valuable theory and vocabulary for planners and architects.</p>