Abstract
Over the past quarter century North American landscape architects have made various claims regarding the role of ecology in the design of urban environments. Landscape architects have incorporated into their work concepts of complexity, interrelatedness, succession, and resiliency. These concepts have provided a strong basis through which to make and execute design decisions. This chapter aims to illustrate the claims that these landscape architects, along with urban designers and interdisciplinary design teams, have made about ecology, and how their understanding of ecology has been deployed in built and proposed design projects. It also describes how their understandings of and attitudes toward ecology have changed in light of the emergence of landscape urbanism in North America. A design theory effected by many contemporary and leading North American landscape architecture practices, landscape urbanism positions landscape as the primary lens to comprehend urbanity and as the most effective medium by which to intervene.
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North, A., Waldheim, C. (2013). Landscape Urbanism: A North American Perspective. In: Pickett, S., Cadenasso, M., McGrath, B. (eds) Resilience in Ecology and Urban Design. Future City, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5341-9_24
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