Download or read book Urban Landscape Perspectives written by Giovanni Maciocco and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-02-01 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban Landscape Perspectives explores how landscape terminology can be usefully brought into the urban debate. The articles are by scholars who have a particular interest in and experience of the city project at various operative scales. They include theoretical reflections on the landscape as an eminently project-like figure. The book describes new methods and approaches dealing with the contemporary environment, whether it is from the point of view of the city or the landscape.