Metropolitan landscape characterization: A typo-morphological approach

Dispersed urban regions are characterized by blurred boundaries between urban and rural areas resulting in complex new configurations of urban tissue and landscape space. These new hybrid landscapes challenge existing tools for landscape characterization, which are based on a traditional separation of urban and non-urban realms. This paper...

Tracing the development of contemporary park-city relationships: Parc de La Villette and Parc André Citroën (paper + presentation)

Since the late post--?war period the relationship between park and city has significantly altered. Parks established between 1980 and 2000 in Paris --? in particular Parc de La Villette and Parc André Citroën – exemplify developments in park design and the park--?city relationship in this period and form precedents for many subsequent parks...