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Think Global, Think Local: Critical regionalism and Landscape Architecture
Get PDFThis issue of Landscape Review is one of four volumes of the proceedings of "CELA 2004 Here or There? The Global and the Local", the annual conference of the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture held at Lincoln University, Canterbury New Zealand, 25-29 June 2004. The issue comprises the eight plenary papers presented at the conference, six of which are published as full double-blind peer review articles, and the remaining two as reports. This editorial summarises the main arguments from the opening presentation, which set the agenda for the conference, and establishes the context within which the plenary papers were selected and presented. We have also taken the opportunity to make some observations about contemporary pressures on the discipline of landscape architecture, and to offer some suggestions about directions in which the discipline might move in addressing the interrelationship between the global and the local
Contemporary Landscapes of Contemplation
No full text'Is a contemplative landscape a place of relaxation, designed to still the mind of thoughts? Is a reductive design vocabulary imperative? Or is it a place that should prompt new insights to emerge - perhaps by providing an intense or unique visual focus?
Editorial: Discourse, dialogue, system, and substance: uses of 'language' in landscape architecture
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