Routledge research companion to landscape architecture / edited by Ellen Braae and Henriette Steiner.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Culture, nature : a punkt in space -- Renaissance gardens : topicality and the scene of nature -- The birth of landscape from the spirit of theory : Alexander von Humboldt's artistic and scientific American travel journals -- Historicizing the view from below : aerial photography and the emergence of a social conception of space -- Beyond innocence : the norms and forms of colonial urban landscapes -- Scenes from an anthropocenic archive -- Transareal excursions into landscape of fragility and endurance : a contemporary interpretation of Alexander von Humboldt's mobile science -- Smart nature? Views from the cyborg tree -- "Cloudism" : towards a new culture of making landscapes -- The Marnas digital archive : exploring practice, theory, and place in space and time -- The vertical and the horizontal : combining ethnographic an geographic methods in understanding landscape -- Toward a somatology of landscape : anthropological multinaturalism and the natural world -- Designing landscapes of entanglement -- Enlarging the urban orchestra : re-thinking current approaches to landscape architecture -- City, nature, infrastructure : a brief lexicon -- Urgent interventions needed at the territorial scale-now more than ever -- Landscape architecture and social sustainability in an age of uncertainty : the need for an ethical debate -- Coupling environmental and sociocultural sustainability for better design : a case study of emirati neighbourhoods and landscape -- Planning with heritage : a critical debate across landscape architecture practice and heritage theory -- The case to save socialist space : Soviet residential landscapes under threat of extinction -- Imaginaries in landscape architecture -- Whose city is it? Public space as agent of change in marginalized settlements in Buenos Aires -- Khôrographos : space-scripting -- Towards new research methodologies in design : shifting inquiry away from the unequivocal towards the ambiguous -- Conversation on education.