İDEALKENT

Yazarlar: Ebru BİNGÖL

Konular:Sosyal

DOI:10.31198/idealkent.771247

Anahtar Kelimeler:Landscape,City,Heterotopia,Landscape architecture theory,Urban processes,Landscape architecture,Theory and practice

Özet: According to Michel Foucoult (1997), gardens are one of the heterotopia spaces that are not included in social norms, irrelevant to the existing mode of production, and cannot be homogenized by the existing power and dominant ideology. But does landscape fall into this category? This article seeks answer to this question in landscape architecture theory and practices whose main area of study is landscape. Since the institutionalization of landscape architecture discipline in America at the beginning of the twentieth century until today, various meanings has been attributed to the concept of landscape such as the other of the city, pastoral aesthetics, passive urban part, or an alternative urbanization model, that were evoking the idea of heterotopia. Using literature review and embedded theory research model, this article points out the theoretical positions of landscape against the city as heterotopia, nevertheless how their responses in spatial practices are related to urban dynamics and capitalist accumulation processes. The aim of the article is to reveal the inseparable relationship between landscape and urban processes and to shed light on the possibilities of evaluating the concept of landscape with a theoretical and practical integrity.

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