Defining the Urban Condition: Accelerating Change in the Geography of Power

Sustainability, Sensitivity, and Delight

International Proceedings

Author(s): Patricia Brown

Contemporary urban landscape design is frequently aesthetically disappointing, of limited interest or use, and denying of possibilities for future change or maturation. Urban land is almost always the focus of multiple demands and economies, and is likely to be invested with particular and rapidly shifting significance and value. In particular, models of contemporary urban landscape design do not make use of rich and varied research data coming from sources outside of the design professions.

https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.Intl.1995.59

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