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Ken Smith Landscape Architects: Urban Projects
A Source Book in Landscape Architecture
by Nina Rappaport, Jane Amidon, Peter Reed · 1st Edition · 2006 · Princeton Architectural Press
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Presents the urban landscape projects of Ken Smith Landscape Architects, examining innovative approaches to public space, landscape design, and urban transformation.
Title: Ken Smith Landscape Architects: Urban Projects
Subtitle: A Source Book in Landscape Architecture
Author / Editor: Nina Rappaport, Jane Amidon, Peter Reed
Type: Book / Landscape Architecture Reference
Edition: 1st Edition
Year: 2006
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN: 978-1-56898-551-7
Slug: ken-smith-landscape-architects-urban-projects
Summary
The book documents selected projects by Ken Smith and his practice, showing how landscape architecture can reshape urban environments through distinctive planting strategies, public spaces, site interventions, and strong relationships between landscape and architecture.
Key takeaways
- 1.Landscape architecture can actively transform and redefine urban spaces.
- 2.Public landscapes can combine ecological, social, and cultural functions.
- 3.Planting design can become a major architectural and urban-design element.
- 4.Landscape interventions can create new identities for ordinary or neglected urban sites.
- 5.Successful urban landscapes respond to their physical and cultural context.
- 6.Landscape and architecture can work together to create integrated public environments.
- 7.Innovative landscape strategies can challenge conventional ideas about public space.
- 8.Site-specific design can produce distinctive and memorable urban experiences.
CreaCore Insight
Ken Smith's work demonstrates how landscape architecture can operate as an active urban design tool, transforming infrastructure, leftover spaces, and public areas into meaningful civic environments.
Practical application
Useful for urban landscape studies, public-space design, site planning, landscape-architecture concepts, planting strategies, and developing architectural projects that integrate landscape as a primary design element.
Good to know
Who it's for: Architecture Students, Landscape Architecture Students, Architects, Landscape Architects, Urban Designers, Planning Professionals
ISBN: 978-1-56898-551-7
Topics
Landscape Architecture Urban Projects Public Space Urban Design Landscape Design Site Planning Ecological Design Public Realm Contemporary Landscape