Innate Terrain: Canadian Landscape Architecture 9781487527211, 9781487527242, 9781487527228, 9781487527235, 1487527217

Innate Terrain addresses the varied perceptions of Canada’s natural terrain, framing the discussion in the context of la

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Innate Terrain: Canadian Landscape Architecture
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Table of contents :
Cover
Half-Title Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Illustrations
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Consequent of the Land
PART ONE: NATIVE LAND: Physical-Human-Geographical Regions / Land Use / Land Claims / Land Management
1 Collaboration with the Keepers of Traditional Knowledge
2 Nouveaux Paysages: Contemporary Installations by Canadian Landscape Architects
3 Resolve: Negotiation and Implementation of Land Claims
4 Landscapes of Culture: Inuit Traditional Knowledge Applied
5 Working in the Wild: Landscape Architecture in Canada’s National Parks
PART TWO: TRUE NORTH: Regionalism / Critical Regionalism / Resources / Cultural-Biological Resources
6 Nature
7 The Power of Local in East Coast Landscapes
8 L’anarchie resplendissante – Resplendent Anarchy: Towards a Quebec Regionalism
9 Wide Open Space: Towards a Phenomenology for Prairie Landscape Architecture
PART THREE: FAR AND WIDE: Cities / Megalopolises / Urbanity / Urban Conurbations / Urban Ecology
10 Technology-Driven Shift in the Digital Representation of Landscape Architecture
11 Landscape Verified as Infrastructure: Toronto’s Waterfront Transformation
12 The Right Tree in the Right Place
13 Supernatural: An Account of Vancouver’s Post-Industrial Landscape
14 Urbanization and Large Canadian Parks in the Nineteenth Century and Today
Contributors
Index

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