Landscape Urbanism and its Discontents is a collection of essays exploring the debate over urban reform, now polarized around two competing paradigms: Landscape Urbanism and the New Urbanism . Andres Duany and James Howard Kunstler delve into the impact of the tension creating cities that are in balance with nature.

Landscape Urbanism and New Urbanism - negotiating the relationship between cities and the natural world

In contemporary Western society, urban development is regarded as an unfortunate blight from which nature provides a much-needed respite. This apparent dichotomy ignores the interdependence between human settlement and the natural world. In fact, one of the most pressing problems facing urban theorists today is determining how to resolve the tension between the built and natural environments, in the process creating truly sustainable cities.

Landscape Urbanism and its Discontents is a collection of essays exploring the debate over urban reform, now polarized around the two competing paradigms of Landscape Urbanism and the New Urbanism. Landscape Urbanism is conceived as a more ecologically based approach, while New Urbanism is more concerned with the built form. Well-known and influential urban theorists such as Andrés Duany and James Howard Kunstler delve into the impact of the tension between the two perspectives on:

• Smart growth
• Neighborhood design
• Sustainable development
• Creating cities that are in balance with nature

While there is significant overlap between Landscape Urbanism and the New Urbanism, the former has assumed prominence amongst most critical theorists, whereas the latter's proponents are more practically oriented. Given that these two sets of ideas are at the forefront of sustainable urban design, the analysis– and potential reconciliation—offered by Landscape Urbanism and its Discontents is long overdue.

Andrés Duany is a leading proponent of the New Urbanism and is a founding principal at Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company.

Emily Talen is a professor at Arizona State University and the author of four previous books on urban design.

Preface
1. Reminiscences
Looking Backward: Notes on a Cultural Episode Andrés Duany and Emily Talen
Transcript of a Debate ca. 2011 Sandy Sorlien and Bruce Donnelly, Editors
An Album of Images 1950-2010 [includes color section] Andrés Duany
2. Landscape and the City Michael Dennis and Alistair McIntosh
3. Landscape Urbanism, New Urbanism and the Environmental Paradox of Cities Doug Kelbaugh
4. The Metropolis versus the City Neal I. Payton
5. The Social Apathy of Landscape Urbanism Emily Talen
6. A General Theory of Ecological Urbanism Andrés Duany
7. The Zombies of Gund Hall Go Forth and Eat America's Brains James Howard Kunstler
8. Landscape Urbanism: Supplement or Substitute? Paul Murrain
9. Why Dogs Should Not Eat Dogs Daniel Solomon
10. Absorbing Landscape Urbanism Bruce Donnelly
11. Art Vitiating Life Michael Mehaffy
12. Marginality and the Prospect for Urbanism in the Post-Ecological City Michael Rios
13. Adaptive Urbanism Kristina Hill and Larissa Larsen
14. Talk of Urbanism Jason Brody
15. Articulating Landscape Urbanism Jusuck Koh
16. Landscape Ecology and Its Urbanism Perry Pei-Ju Yang
17. Urbanism — New, Landscape, or Otherwise: The Case for Complementarity Nan Ellin
18. A Critique of the High Line: Landscape Urbanism and the Global South Leon Morenas

Index
About The Editors/Contributors