Transformative Landscape Architecture. Udo Weilacher interviews landscape architect and honorary doctor at the Technical University of Munich James Corner from New York

The best direction for landscape architecture is to become more intelligent with regards to the city, because the city is where all the problems and possibilities are. If we want to live on a sustainable planet we need more people in cities, and maybe there is a new way to think about what a city is and how a city is made. Let’s think of a city as if it was a landscape. When we say “landscape”, most people today think of green, but many natural landscapes are not green. The city is a sort of a topography, a network, a fabric of encounters and experiences, exchanges and transactions. So why can’t we begin to take on the city in a much more adventurous way?     «

The best direction for landscape architecture is to become more intelligent with regards to the city, because the city is where all the problems and possibilities are. If we want to live on a sustainable planet we need more people in cities, and maybe there is a new way to think about what a city is and how a city is made. Let’s think of a city as if it was a landscape. When we say “landscape”, most people today think of green, but many natural landscapes are not green. The city is a sort of a t...     »