Transformative Ground

<p>Aimed at students and instructors, alongside practitioners and researchers, in landscape architecture and its allied disciplinary fields, this book provides the reader with a clear framework of theoretical and practical considerations for interpreting and designing post-industrial landscapes. One of the biggest contemporary challenges currently faced in the profession is how to effectively understand and work with the transformational possibilities of post-industrial landscapes, while negotiating significant spatial challenges, such as degradation and fragmentation. </p><p><em>Transformative Ground: A Field Guide to the Post-Industrial Landscape</em> presents a range of theoretical perspectives and practical approaches, offering a broad scope of contemporary design strategies that deal with post-industrial landscapes. Through a series of thematic chapters, allied with precedents from leading design offices, this book identifies how the context of post-industrial landscapes has compelled shifts in fundamental ideas that underpin landscape design. As a richly illustrated account of this transformative ground, this book provides a must-have guide to help you reimagine the post-industrial landscape. </p> <p>Chapter 1 <i>Relinquishing Control </i></p><p>Chapter 2<i> The Agency of the Wild</i></p><p>Chapter 3 <i>A Menacing Dragon</i></p><p>Chapter 4 <i>The Entanglement</i> </p><p>Chapter 5 <i>Everyday Aesthetics</i></p><p>Chapter 6 <i>Transitional Urbanism</i></p><p>Chapter 7 <i>The Mesh and the Matrix</i></p><p>Chapter 8<i> Relational Scales</i></p><p>Chapter 9 <i>Enlivened Temporality </i></p>