Recycling Spaces
Curating Urban Evolution: The Landscape Design of Martha Schwartz Partners
Martha Schwartz Partners is one of the most exciting landscape and urban-design practices in the world. Their highly original and popular schemes breathe life into cities and neighbourhoods by connecting people to places and by creating lively outdoor spaces that are sustainable and viable over the long term.
This comprehensive overview of the firm’s latest work, underpinned by Martha Schwartz’s outspoken views on improving our urban centres, makes this an essential publication for urban designers, landscape architects and city planners.
Martha Schwartz is a landscape architect and artist. Thames & Hudson published her previous monograph, TheVanguard Landscapes and Gardens of Martha Schwartz, in 2004.
Emily Waugh teaches architecture and landscape architecture at Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
One of the most important questions facing urban centres today is how to keep people attracted to live in, invest in, and participate in the city. Working on the premise that places that resonate with people are sustainable places, Martha Schwartz creates spaces that aim to make people feel emotionally connected, engaged and invested in their long-term viability. This expanded notion of sustainability is the basis of the firms public work, and is illustrated here by a selection of the firms recent design projects, including Grand Canal Square in Dublin, Exchange Square in Manchester and the Central Park Monte Laa in Vienna, many published in this book for the first time. Readers will be able to explore some of the issues raised through the projects through essays on such topics as: the role of the urban landscape in the sustained health of the world's cities; landscape as urban infrastructure; the aesthetics of sustainability; why people choose to live in cities; and, the qualities that make them attractive.
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