Landscapes of housing : design and planning in the history of environmental thought / edited by Jeanne Haffner.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Shaping society -- "This scene is itself living": human geography and the ecologies of dwelling, 1870-1970 -- The Chicago alternative: vernacular forms for the garden city -- From ecology to pathology: the landscapes of midcentury public housing and the shifting grounds of environment -- From garden settlement to cooperative economy: housing, labor, and socialization theory in Vienna and Berlin, 1920-1925 -- Environmental speculations: landscape suburbanism between housing and planning, 1920s-1940s -- Part II. Shaping individuals -- "Not just barberry": a political ecology of the Swedish "concrete suburbs," 1960-1981 -- Expanding Danish welfare landscapes: Steen Eiler Rasmussen and Tingbjerg housing estate -- Letting the dust settle: the landscapes of open space in the model housing developments QT8, Milan, and Hansaviertel, West-Berlin -- French housing and the environment, 1945-1975: from public health to private space -- Part III. Shaping the environment -- Reciprocal interaction: architecture and landscape in the early work of Ian McHarg -- Roberto Burle Marx and the modern gardens of Brazilian social housing -- Supermeasurement for for superarchitecture: rethinking landscape, building technology, and dwelling for the twenty-first century.

"In the twenty-first century, housing has become a site of ecological experimentation and environmental remediation. From the vantage point of contemporary architecture, conservation concerns and emergent building science technologies support one another, with new processes and materials deployed to reduce energy usage, water consumption, and CO2 emissions. Landscapes of Housing examines this trend in historical perspective, arguing for a more considered environmental vision that includes the organic, social, and cultural dimensions of landscape. By shifting the focus from architecture, the book highlights and critiques the relationship between dwelling and landscape itself. Contributors from a wide range of international perspectives propose a more integrative ecology that includes history, culture, society, and materiality, in addition to technology, within contemporary ecological housing programs. This book will be a resource for upper-level students, academics, and researchers in landscape architecture interested in the social and political implications of ecological housing"-- Provided by publisher.