Architects

Landscape architecture challenges Andrés Duany’s Congress for New Urbanism

Nov. 16, 2010

Andrés Duany, founder of the Congress for the New Urbanism, adopted the ideas, vision,  and values of the early 20th Century landscape architects/planners John Nolen and Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., to launch a movement that led to more than 300 new towns, regional plans, and community revitalization project commissions for his firm. However, now that there’s a societal buyer’s remorse about New Urbanism, Duany is coming up against a movement that sees landscape architecture—not architecture—as the design medium more capable of organizing the city and enhancing the urban experience.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/charles-a-birnbaum/city-shaping-ii-will-arch_b_782812.html

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