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Operative Landscapes: Building Communities Through Public Space (book review)


The number of physical publications focusing on the documentation of realized landscape architectural projects has increased dramatically in recent decades and the ‘project compendium’ is a prevalent type among this growing body of titles. This model typically involves the representation of built projects on the basis of their location, contemporaneity, typology, thematic associations, and/or perceived quality. Theoretically, it might be thought to operate at a level somewhere between the internet's indiscriminate abundance and the focused depth of a singular project critique. Seemingly, its prevalence and potential would appear positive—the continued growth in publications of this type contributing to the timely dissemination and critical appraisal of recent works, as well as to an increase in the discipline's visibility...

Journal of Landscape Architecture
09.2014





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