#reshapingthecity

The theory of landscape urbanism has, in essence, the idea that landscape can guide the process of city-making, with architecture complementing it and surrounding it. My take on this chapter was more on a programming side. The examples offered referenced projects in which the programming of the landscape seeks to bring back the estranged suburbs, pull them by the umbilical cord back to the Mother Metropolis. In this chapter, I understood that though the city as a structure has dispersed and scattered over the years, it is still possible, though landscape urbanism and its programs and functions, to agglomerate the constituents of a city and obtain more concentrated consumerism and production. In this context, landscape urbanism takes on even a bigger challenge—re-structuring the city, not physically, but in function.

As the single most important factor in a city are its citizens themselves, programming in landscape urbanism is incredibly critical.