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    Reauthorization: S. 2724 (1990): Correspondence 09

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    Advanced Seminar: Urban Nature and City Design

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    This course explores the urban environment as a natural phenomenon, human habitat, medium of expression, and forum for action. The course has several major themes: how ideas of nature influence the way cities are perceived, designed, built, and managed; how natural processes and urban form interact and the consequences for human health and welfare; how planners and designers can shape the urban natural environment. Each student researches and presents a case, either historical or an example of contemporary theory and practice

    El lenguaje del paisaje: alfabetizaci贸n, identidad, poes铆a y poder

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    Landscape is rooted in an association between people and place. It is scene of life, cultivated construction, carrier of meaning. Landscapes speak. They disclose their origins. They assert identity and proclaim the beliefs of those who made them. They affirm and refute ideas. They allude to art and literature. Each rock, each river, each tree has its own history. The stories humans tell go further. They have a deliberate narrative: stories of survival, identity, power, and prayer. Landscape narratives are a way of organizing reality, justifying actions, instructing, persuading, even forcing, people to perform in particular ways. Like verbal literacy, landscape literacy entails both understanding the world and transforming it. To design wisely is to read ongoing dialogues in a place, to distinguish enduring stories from ephemeral ones, and to imagine how to join the conversation. To be literate in landscape is to recognize both the problems in a place and its resources, to understand how they came about, by what means they are sustained, and how they are related. Such literacy must be a prerequisite for urban planning and design.El paisaje tiene sus ra铆ces en la relaci贸n entre las personas y el lugar. Es un decorado de la vida, una construcci贸n cultivada,聽un soporte de significado. Los paisajes muestran sus or铆genes, afirman la identidad y proclaman las creencias de aqu茅llos聽que los fabricaron. Afirman y refutan ideas, aluden a la literatura y al arte. Cada roca, cada r铆o, cada 谩rbol tienen su propia聽historia. Las historias que cuentan los humanos van m谩s all谩. Tienen una narrativa deliberada: historias de聽 supervivencia,聽identidad, poder y anhelos. Las narrativas del paisaje son una forma de organizar la realidad, justificar actos, instruir,聽persuadir, incluso forzar a las personas a actuar de una forma determinada. Como la capacidad de leer y escribir en una聽lengua, la alfabetizaci贸n en el lenguaje del paisaje implica tanto entender el mundo como transformarlo. Dise帽ar con inteligencia聽es entender los di谩logos en curso en un lugar, distinguir las historias duraderas de las ef铆meras e imaginar c贸mo聽unirse a la conversaci贸n. Saber leer y escribir en el paisaje es reconocer en un lugar tanto sus problemas como sus recursos,聽entender c贸mo surgieron, c贸mo se mantienen y c贸mo se relacionan. Esta capacidad ha de ser un requisito previo para el聽planeamiento y el dise帽o urbano

    El lenguaje del paisaje: alfabetizaci贸n, identidad, poes铆a y poder/The language of landscape: Literacy, identity, poetry and power

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    ResumenEl paisaje tiene sus ra铆ces en la relaci贸n entre las personas y el lugar. Es un decorado de la vida, una construcci贸n cultivada,聽un soporte de significado. Los paisajes muestran sus or铆genes, afirman la identidad y proclaman las creencias de aqu茅llos聽que los fabricaron. Afirman y refutan ideas, aluden a la literatura y al arte. Cada roca, cada r铆o, cada 谩rbol tienen su propia聽historia. Las historias que cuentan los humanos van m谩s all谩. Tienen una narrativa deliberada: historias de聽 supervivencia,聽identidad, poder y anhelos. Las narrativas del paisaje son una forma de organizar la realidad, justificar actos, instruir,聽persuadir, incluso forzar a las personas a actuar de una forma determinada. Como la capacidad de leer y escribir en una聽lengua, la alfabetizaci贸n en el lenguaje del paisaje implica tanto entender el mundo como transformarlo. Dise帽ar con inteligencia聽es entender los di谩logos en curso en un lugar, distinguir las historias duraderas de las ef铆meras e imaginar c贸mo聽unirse a la conversaci贸n. Saber leer y escribir en el paisaje es reconocer en un lugar tanto sus problemas como sus recursos,聽entender c贸mo surgieron, c贸mo se mantienen y c贸mo se relacionan. Esta capacidad ha de ser un requisito previo para el聽planeamiento y el dise帽o urbano.Palabras clave: Paisaje, lenguaje, alfabetizaci贸n, identidad, desarrollo comunitario, gesti贸n del agua, educaci贸n, historia.AbstractLandscape is rooted in an association between people and place. It is scene of life, cultivated construction, carrier of聽meaning. Landscapes speak. They disclose their origins. They assert identity and proclaim the beliefs of those who made聽them. They affirm and refute ideas. They allude to art and literature. Each rock, each river, each tree has its own history.聽The stories humans tell go further. They have a deliberate narrative: stories of survival, identity, power, and prayer. Landscape聽narratives are a way of organizing reality, justifying actions, instructing, persuading, even forcing, people to perform聽in particular ways. Like verbal literacy, landscape literacy entails both understanding the world and transforming it. To聽design wisely is to read ongoing dialogues in a place, to distinguish enduring stories from ephemeral ones, and to imagine聽how to join the conversation. To be literate in landscape is to recognize both the problems in a place and its resources, to聽understand how they came about, by what means they are sustained, and how they are related. Such literacy must be a聽prerequisite for urban planning and design.Keywords: Landscape, language, literacy, identity, community development, water management, education, history

    The Once and Future City

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    What is a city? What shapes it? How does its history influence future development? How do physical form and institutions vary from city to city and how are these differences significant? How are cities changing and what is their future? This course will explore these and other questions, with emphasis upon twentieth-century American cities. A major focus will be on the physical form of cities - from downtown and inner-city to suburb and edge city - and the processes that shape them. The class Web site can be found here: The City

    The Poetics of City and Nature: Toward a New Aesthetic for Urban Design

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    Design for Survival

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    Volume: 44Start Page: 29End Page: 3

    The granite garden : urban nature and human design

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