Terra Fluxus Article

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James Corner’s article Terra Fluxus (2005) highlights that landscape ought to be considered as infrastructure in the field of landscape urbanism. Corner further argues that landscape urbanism is a hybrid practice that emphasizes processes over time. Corner aims to show that emergent ecologies will increasingly be integrated with the new cities of the future in order to inspire architects to focus on landscapes for their roles in organizing cities and the urban experience. Corner writes to a well-informed audience on landscape architecture and urban planning, while identifying a viable theory to guide architects working with landscapes.
In the text, Corner identifies urbanization as a dynamic process that is fluid and non linear. Landscape urbanism is characterized by the concept of process in time whereby spontaneity rather than predictability is more comm...