If the Past Teaches, What Does the Future Learn?

Ancient Urban Regions and the Durable Future

Book (2022)

Authors

Carole L. Crumley University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
John T. Murphy University of Illinois
Federica Sulas University of Cambridge
T.L. Thurston University at Buffalo (UB)
Carrie Hritz The Pew Charitable Trusts
Christian Isendahl University of Gothenburg
S. Nijhuis Landscape Architecture - Architecture and the Built Environment
Lisa J. Lucero University of Illinois
John Meunier Arizona State University
Payam Ostovar Coen + Partners, Minneapolis
Clemens Reichel University of Toronto
Vernon, L. Scarborough University of Cincinnati
Research Group
Landscape Architecture (Architecture and the Built Environment) (TU Delft)
Copyright: © 2022 Carole L. Crumley, John T. Murphy, Carrie Hritz, Christian Isendahl, S. Nijhuis, Lisa J. Lucero, John Meunier, Payam Ostovar, Clemens Reichel, Vernon, L. Scarborough, Federica Sulas, T.L. Thurston
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Published Date

2022

Language

English

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Faculty

Architecture and the Built Environment

Department

Urbanism

Research Group

Landscape Architecture

Abstract

How can we transform urban environments to encourage durability and mediate the social price of myriad risks and vulnerability? Our work here is to build a bridge from archaeology to mainstream architectural and design theory. The study of places, landscapes, and regions links the two fields. Architecture can be shaped and enhanced by the long-term cultural and geographic perspective afforded by archaeology; architecture can offer archaeology a ride into the future. The bridge unites three domains: material, social, and aesthetic. We look to the past to find material technologies—new engineering and conceptual solutions to an array of problems—and the past obliges with many examples.