TY - JOUR
T1 - Toward a New Landscape
T2 - Modern Courtyard Housing and Ian McHarg's Urbanism
AU - John-Alder, Kathleen L.
N1 - Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: The author thanks the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences for their financial support.
PY - 2014/8
Y1 - 2014/8
N2 - While many authors have discussed the environmental planning methodology outlined by Ian McHarg in Design with Nature, little attention has been paid to the influence of modern architecture upon that planning and design manifesto. This article addresses that deficiency by examining three early articles by McHarg-"Open Space and Housing" (1955), "The Court House Concept" (1957), and "The Humane City" (1958). These articles situate McHarg's promotion of open space, and his environmental activism, in relationship to an ambitious intellectual and political rationale that is firmly rooted within the functional, social, aesthetic, and heroic traditions of architectural modernism.
AB - While many authors have discussed the environmental planning methodology outlined by Ian McHarg in Design with Nature, little attention has been paid to the influence of modern architecture upon that planning and design manifesto. This article addresses that deficiency by examining three early articles by McHarg-"Open Space and Housing" (1955), "The Court House Concept" (1957), and "The Humane City" (1958). These articles situate McHarg's promotion of open space, and his environmental activism, in relationship to an ambitious intellectual and political rationale that is firmly rooted within the functional, social, aesthetic, and heroic traditions of architectural modernism.
KW - McHarg
KW - housing
KW - modern architecture
KW - open space
KW - process and change
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U2 - 10.1177/1538513213510895
DO - 10.1177/1538513213510895
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84904313364
SN - 1538-5132
VL - 13
SP - 187
EP - 206
JO - Journal of Planning History
JF - Journal of Planning History
IS - 3
ER -