景观都市学

Landscape Urbanism

景观都市学的核心就是景观"场",它对更好地理解当代都市化过程起着日趋重要的作用。随着这一理论的逐步成熟,对许多不同学科的人士来说,景观已成为一种"透视镜",通过它,当代都市得以表现;同时景观又是一种"媒介",通过它,当代都市得以展示。从这个学术观点出发,在全球都市化的进程中景观已被认为是一种必不可少的文化实践,而不是过去所谓的传统的艺术流派、环境科学或应用艺术;过去有关建筑、都市化与景观的区别和划分已成为历史。相反,由这些相关学科共同组成的生态基础设施的景观"场"已成为我们理解与从事当代都市化建设的首选。

Landscape urbanism is an emerging body of knowledge assembled around the notion that landscape has become increasingly important to any understanding of contemporary urbanism. For many, across a variety of disciplines, landscape has become the lens through which the contemporary city is represented and the medium through which it is projected. In this formulation, contemporary landscape is conceived as a critical cultural practice implicated in the global process of urbanization, as opposed to being defined as art historical genre, environmental science, or applied art. Traditional disciplinary distinctions between architecture, urbanism, and landscape architecture are postponed in favor of an infrastructural and ecological understanding of the urbanization.