The Authority of Nature: Conflict, Confusion, and Renewal in Design, Planning, and Ecology
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The Authority of Nature: Conflict, Confusion, and Renewal in Design, Planning, and Ecology
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Thesis Statement:
In Design, Planning, and Ecology, nature is taken as authority commonly but in different ways. Nature is both mirror and model for landscape design.
How does the author structure their argument and what evidence do they provide to support it?
The author discussed from phenomenon of nature being cited as authority in planning and design to the definition of nature to the practice of designs which take nature as authority but differently. Then the author discuss again about how to redifine and renew the nature in landscape architecture.
How does the text expand or change the way you understand and define “nature”?
The text has defined the first, second and third nature, which has expanded my understanding of nature. The first nature is unaltered by human labor, the second createdby human labor. The garden is the third nature which is a self-concious representaion of first and second natures,.
What additional questions does the reading raise for you?
The reading make me think that in the future what kind of nature should we persue in landscape design. If the practical goal is to solve or ease the climate and pollution crisis, why should not science be the dogma.
Highlight important vocabulary that was confusing to you.
dogmatic
structure
The Nature of Landscape Design and Planning
Constructing Nature
the Fens
Columbus Park
To bring people, especially "the growing minds" of youth, into contract with their home environment.
Both Olmsted and Jensen intended their projects to expose townspeople to what they saw as the beneficial influence of rural scenery, particularly those people who were unable to travel to far-off places and were barred from “neighboring fields, woods, pond-sides, river-banks, valleys, or hills" (Olmsted 1895, pp. 253-254).
Reconstructing Nature, Recovering Landscape and Language, Renewing Landscape Architecture
The Nature of Nature
the authority of "nature"
the Fens
Columbus Park
nature is both mirror and model for landscape design
Nature is the mirror for landscape design, because the landscape design is changing the nature and create a second nature. The succession and other changes on the site could reflect how the landscape design is, like on Philipsdale, the way to test if the landscape design would really eliminate the pollution on the site is to monitor the contaminants in soil after the site is built. Nature is also the model of landscape design. Also on Philipsdale, the shape of discharge channel mimics the natural shape of rivers and estuarys. The shape of water bodies in the first nature are the results of physics, the model of how landscape would evolve and become. The causes and functions of these water body shapes helps designers understand waterscape design better, especially when the waterscapes are related to ecological functions.
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