Landscape Urbanism and its Discontents: Dissimulating the Sustainable City
- ISBN-10
- 1550925369
- ISBN-13
- 9781550925364
- Category
- Architecture
- Pages
- 336
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-05-17
- Publisher
- New Society Publishers
- Authors
- Emily Talen, Andres Duany
Description
Landscape Urbanism vs. the New Urbanism--negotiating the relationship between cities and the natural world.
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- 2013-06-11
- 353 pages
- Paperback
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