Re-revised Methodology

This is my methodology revisited. I have outlined what I have done in plain text, what I need to do in bold text , as well as highlight major points of interest. 

Research Bibliography

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

Abalos, Iñaki, and José Luis Mateo. Natural Metaphor: an Anthology of Essays on Architecture and Nature. Zürich: ETH, 2007. Print.

Alanen, Arnold R., and Robert Melnick. Preserving Cultural Landscapes in America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2000. Print.

Corner, James, and Alex S. MacLean. Taking Measures across the American Landscape. New Haven: Yale UP, 1996. Print.

Corner, James. Recovering Landscape: Essays in Contemporary Landscape Architecture. New York: Princeton Architectural, 1999. Print.

Gissen, David. Subnature: Architecture's Other Environments. New York: Princeton Architectural, 2009. Print.

Groth, Paul Erling., and Todd W. Bressi. Understanding Ordinary Landscapes. New Haven: Yale UP, 1997. Print.

Shepheard, Paul. The Cultivated Wilderness, Or, What Is Landscape? Chicago, IL: Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, 1997. Print.

Swaffield, Simon R. Theory in Landscape Architecture: a Reader. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 2002. Print.

LANDSCAPE URBANISM

Hayden, Dolores, and Jim Wark. A Field Guide to Sprawl. New York: W.W. Norton, 2004. Print.

Hayden, Dolores. Building Suburbia: Green Fields and Urban Growth, 1820-2000. New York: Pantheon, 2003. Print.

Wall, Ed, and Tim Waterman. Urban Design. Lausanne [Switzerland: AVA Academia, 2010. Print.

Yeang, Ken. Reinventing the Skyscraper a Vertical Theory of Urban Design. Chichester (GB): Wiley-academy, 2002. Print.

Yeang, Ken. The Green Skyscraper: the Basis for Designing Sustainable Intensive Buildings. Munich: Prestel, 1999. Print.

THEORY

Le, Corbusier. Towards a New Architecture. [United States]: BN Pub., 2008. Print.

McKibben, Bill. Eaarth. New York: Time /Henry Holt, 2010. Print.

McKibben, Bill. The End of Nature. New York: Random House, 1989. Print.

Wapner, Paul Kevin. Living through the End of Nature: the Future of American Environmentalism. Cambridge, MA: MIT, 2010. Print.

PRECEDENTS

Aurand, Martin. The Spectator and the Topographical City. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh, 2006. Print.

Field Operations, with Diller Scofidio + Renfro: NYC High Line

Frank Lloyd Wright: Broadacre City

Freeway Park: Seattle, Washington

Louis Kahn: City Tower Project, Philadelphia and other projects

LTL: Park Tower

* Books read in BOLD

Beginnings of a Taxonomy- Scaping

1-3-9 revised

Architecture can begin to insert the natural landscape back into the cityscape, renewing the original footprint, and contributing to a new sustainability defined by the attributes of each –scape.

The natural landscape can be defined with the following characteristics; pure, sustainable, organic, topographical and inducing movement. The cityscape is defined as man-made, gridded, shaping movement, and layered; with the layers being built of several systems creating an infrastructure. By combining the qualities of each the natural landscape and cityscape, a new “scaping” can occur that brings back to life a new take on sustainability through natural means of integration and growth.

The creation of the natural landscape cannot be pure due to the fact that the “natural” cannot be made, yet it can be re-introduced through passive and active techniques.  Using the technology of the city and advanced thought as well as simply allowing the re-growth of the natural take over, the integration of the layers of each can begin to create a sub-natural or a neo-natural landscape and environment. How can architecture play a role to effect both the built environment and natural environment in a positive way? One can begin to see that by renewing the city’s footprint to its original state there is the chance to raise it, the city and the connections rather than simply expanding outward as the city grows. Architecture can begin to solve the problems of both growing cities and maintaining natural environments by growing vertically rather than horizontally as well as keeping in mind its approach to new buildings on the landscape. The best place for this idea to be realized would be an unclean, dying city situated near an extreme natural environment that could bring interesting and renewing qualities to the final result. The “scaping” could be implemented on a small scale that could then be realized at larger degrees over time.  Rather than simply making a “green” city, I am focusing on utilizing the benefits of both the cityscape and the natural landscape to create a more sustainable city. Instead of creating new sustainable buildings, I am hoping to correct, through a new sustainability, the flaws of the current city.

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Methodology-revised

Methodology

Thesis 1-3-9

Architecture can begin to insert the natural landscape back into the cityscape; renewing the original footprint.  

The natural landscape can be defined with the following attributes; pure, sustainable, topographical and inducing movement. The cityscape is defined as man-made, gridded, layered, and shaping movement. By combining the qualities of each the natural landscape and cityscape, a new “scaping” can occur that brings back to life a new take on sustainability through natural means.

The creation of the natural landscape cannot be pure due to the fact that the “natural” cannot be made, yet it can be re-introduced.  Using the technology of the city and advanced thought, the integration of the layers of each can begin to create a sub-natural or a neo-natural landscape and environment. How can architecture play a role to effect both the built environment and natural environment in a positive way? One can begin to see that by renewing the city’s footprint to its original state there is the chance to raise it, the city and the connections rather than simply expanding outward as the city grows. Architecture can begin to solve the problems of both growing cities and maintaining natural environments. The best place for this idea to be realized would be an unclean city situated near an extreme natural environment that could bring interesting and renewing qualities to the final result. The “scaping” could be implemented on a small scale that could then be realized at larger degrees over time.  Rather than simply making a “green” city, I am focusing on utilizing the benefits of both the cityscape and the natural landscape to create a more sustainable city. Instead of creating new sustainable buildings, I am hoping to correct, through a new sustainability, the flaws of the current city.