RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 The Importance of History and Context in the Postmodern Urban Landscape
JF Landscape Journal
FD University of Wisconsin Press
SP 157
OP 165
DO 10.3368/lj.18.2.157
VO 18
IS 2
A1 Michael J. Schmandt
YR 1999
UL http://lj.uwpress.org/content/18/2/157.abstract
AB The transformation from modern to postmodern design is having a profound effect on the urban fabric of American downtowns. Postmodernism's historical and geographically contextual properties are producing a new landscape furnished with distinctly different buildings, layouts, and land uses. The result is an urban fabric that attempts to reconnect people to place through its architecture, the preservation of historic buildings, the re-emergence of mixed land uses, and connections among developments. Historicism and geographic contextualism need to be better understood, utilized, and promoted by architects, planners, and developers.