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Essay / landscape urban planning - 935
IntroductionThe relationship between city, landscape and urban planning is confused today due to the constant transformation of the landscape and the city in the Renaissance to the concept of landscape in today's cities today. The idea of the city as a place of meeting, cultural life and natural environment has changed through urban planning, producing limitless and sprawling cities. During a century of urban planning where most people live in urban areas, two major movements in urban planning have emerged, claiming theories and practices for how we should design our cities: New Urbanism and landscape town planning. New Urbanism emerged in the 1980s with a new approach to urban planning. and how future communities should be designed to promote walking, cycling and new dense mixed-use developments. By the end of the century, most urban design professionals and scholars supported the principle of an urban model in which necessary daily facilities were easily accessible by foot or bicycle and was compatible with low-cost building design. height and high density. The new approach to shaping the city was a response to suburban sprawl, which led to unsustainable neighborhoods not only in America but around the world, to designing cities oriented toward the automobile. The goal is to reform the built environment by creating new, compact cities and improving quality of life. Landscape urbanism argues that city form should be about open spaces where buildings sit and where the landscape is the structuring support, not the building. fabric. The term "landscape urbanism" was first mentioned by Melbourne urban design masters student Peter Connolly, suggesting that the city of the future should be a mix of landscape, rural and urban. Beginning in the 1990s, landscape urbanism evolved as a design approach in the United States...... middle of paper ...... ormative park form leading to some criticism of the conventional meaning of a park. But the project itself can be considered a success because it does not give a final state to the area by focusing more on the process of transforming a trash heap into an urban park. The High Line Park in New York is one of the first landscaped urban planning projects. This is an abandoned elevated railway line colonized by plants risking the safety of the structure. The Regional Plan Association and Friends of the High Line proposed converting the viaduct into a 6-acre park by selecting James Corner's Field Operations Studio and Diller Scofidio+Renfro to design the project. They proposed a linear landscaped walkway where the agricultural strategy combines building and organic materials carefully hosting plantings in a shaped pavement, sometimes combined with railway tracks..