Landscape (and) urbanism? Engaging Nolli

Anthony Sease

Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability, 2015, vol. 8, issue 4, 352-372

Abstract: Landscape urbanism is articulated against the purported failures of traditional urban design practices to conceptualize adequately the transience, adaptability, and ecological complexity demanded by contemporary urbanism. This paper engages Giambattista Nolli's 1748 map of Rome, a seminal example of the figure ground representational method, to highlight some contradictions in landscape urbanism's texts and projects. Whereas the figure ground is often reduced to a binary black and white image, Nolli's map illustrates the intertwining of public and private spaces, through rendering detailed attributes of site, infrastructure, history, and architecture. Also considered is the assertive restructuring of disciplinary influence within what Linda Pollak identifies as 'constructed ground.' This reclamation constitutes a re-territorializing of landscape architecture through re-engagement of the urban fabric, as well as the more aspirational and necessary re-territorializing of design through intentional consideration of ecological complexity in the making of public urban spaces.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1080/17549175.2014.909517

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