The Mobile Imagination: Walking-mapping-narrating Landscape Futures
Keywords:
Walking, mapping, narrative, design, urban landscape, Broadway, mobile fieldwork
Abstract
This article considers the continued agency of the body in movement as an active means of reading and reimagining the urban landscape. Using a design study, which reconsiders the gridded island of Manhattan through a walk down Broadway, the article introduces an activist landscape design methodology where field walking as exploratory mapping yields multilinear narratives to generate landscape futures. The article begins with a description of this study, then transitions into its broader situation within and implications for landscape architectural methodology.
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Debord, Guy (1970) The Society of the Spectacle. Kalamazoo, MI: Black and Red (translation of the 1967 original text).
De Certeau, Michel (1984). The Practice of Everyday Life. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Di Palma, Vittoria, (2008) Zoom: Google Earth and global intimacy. In Vittoria di Palma, Periton, Diana, Lathouri, Marina (eds.) Intimate Metropolis: Urban Subjects in the Modern City. London/New York: Routledge, 239-270.
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Holston, James, and Appadurai, Arjun (1998) Introduction: Cities and citizenship. In Holston, James (ed.) Cities and Citizenship, Durham, NC: Duke University, 1-18.
Jacks, Ben (2004) Reimagining walking: Four Practices. Journal of Architectural Education, 57(3), 5-9.
Jacobs, Jane (1958) Downtown is for People. Fortune (April).
Lang, Peter (2007) Stalker on location. In Franck, Karen and Stevens, Quentin (eds.) Loose Space: Possibility and Diversity in Urban Life. New York: Routledge, 193-209.
Lefebvre, Henri (2004). Rhythmanalysis: Space, Time and Everyday Life. New York and London: Bloomsbury Academic.
Long, Richard and Hooker, Denise (2005) Walking the Line. London: Thames & Hudson.
Massey, Doreen (2005). For Space. London: Sage.
Manovich, Lev (2001) The Language of New Media. Cambridge: MIT Press.
Raley, Rita (2015) Walk this Way: Mobile narrative as composed experience. In Schafer, Jorgen and Gendolla, Peter (eds.) Beyond the Screen: Transformations of Literary Structures, Interfaces and Genres. Bielefeld: Transcript, 299-316.
Repton, Humphry (1976) The Red Books (Facsimile edition) London: Basilisk Press.
Rykwert, Joseph (1976) The Idea of a Town. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Sanderson, Eric (2009). Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City. New York: Abrams.
Sheller, Mimi and Urry, John (2006) The New Mobilities Paradigm. Environment and Planning A 38(2), 207-226.
Stilgoe, John (1976) Jack·o'·lanterns to Surveyors: The secularization of landscape boundaries. Environmental Review 1(1), 14-30.
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Thoreau, Henry David (2012) Walking, 1863. In Cramer, Jeffrey, S. (ed.) The Portable Thoreau. New York: Penguin Classics, 555-590.
Wiley, Danielle (2010) A walk about Rome: Tactics for mapping the urban periphery. Architectural Theory Review 15(1), 9-29.
Wolf, Mark J.P. (2012) Building Imaginary Worlds: The Theory and History of Subcreation. New York/London: Routledge.
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2019-02-16
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