the large, corporate, suburban landscaped patches. Recombinant urban landscapes are the key to a new flexibility and will allow American cities to adapt rapidly to the changing energy situation. The result will be multicentred, heterotopic, mixed-use Network Cities that include local ecology, urban parks and agriculture. 4 Notes 1. The contract to bury the I-93 raised highway (1959) in downtown Boston (the Big Dig) was the largest civil contract ever let in American history. Started in 1991, the tunnels <strong>of</strong> the buried highway system opened in December 2003, five years behind schedule and $12 billion over budget. On 10 July 2006, panels <strong>of</strong> the highway tunnel concrete ceiling system fell on the roadway killing a driver, causing the temporary closure <strong>of</strong> the system. The investigation is ongoing. Associated Press, ‘Boston’s “Big Dig” opens to public’, MSNBC, 20 December 2003. For details <strong>of</strong> the evolving new park designs see http://www.boston.com/beyond_bigdig/. 2. Architect Peter Calthorpe advocated the development <strong>of</strong> compact, public transit-based ‘urban villages’ in the early 1970s, describing this pattern <strong>of</strong> development as ‘smart growth’. He applied these ideas in the Portland Metro Vision 2040 plan (1990). See Peter Calthorpe and William Fulton, The Regional City, Island Press (Washington, DC), 2001, pp 139–50. 3. Beth Dunlap, Building a Dream: The Art <strong>of</strong> Disney <strong>Architecture</strong>, Harry N Abrams (New York), 1996, pp 24–54. 4. Ibid, pp 55–61. See also Karal Ann Marling, ‘Imagineering the Disney Theme Parks’, in Karal Ann Marling (ed), Designing Disney’s Theme Parks: The <strong>Architecture</strong> <strong>of</strong> Reassurance, Flammarion (New York and Paris), 1997, pp 148–56. 5. For Playa Vista, see Martha Groves and Roger Vincent, ‘LA’s Urban Model: After years <strong>of</strong> setbacks and controversy, Playa Vista is <strong>of</strong>ficially open. Planners are studying it as an experiment in high-density housing’, Los Angeles Times, 18 October 2003, and for methane see Martha Groves, ‘Playa Vista Buyers Will Test Capability <strong>of</strong> Methane Shield: Critics call high-tech safeguards unproven. Courts back experts who devised system’, Los Angeles Times, 6 January 2003. For Los Angeles River Revitalization Master Plan see http://www.lariverrmp.org/index.htm, accessed 14 October 2006. 6. For Mall <strong>of</strong> America, see John Jerde Partnership International, You Are Here Now, Phaidon (London), 1999, pp 98–107, and for the Stoner Meek project see Warren Techentin, Dead Malls, Los Angeles Forum for <strong>Architecture</strong> & Urban Design (Los Angeles), 2005, p 37. 7. Eugenie Tsai (ed), Robert Smithson, University <strong>of</strong> California Press (Berkeley, CA), 2004, and for images and press release see http://www.robertsmithson.com/ex_events/ex_events.htm, accessed 14 November 2006. 8. See James Corner, ‘Terra Fluxus’, in Charles Waldheim (ed), The <strong>Landscape</strong> Urbanism Reader, Princeton Architectural Press (New York), 2006, pp 022–033. 9. For Field Operations’ Fresh Kills Park, Staten Island, see http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/fkl/fkl_index.shtml, accessed 14 October 2006. 10. For Green Skyscrapers, see http://www.skyscraper.org/EXHIBITIONS/GREEN_TOWERS/gt_main.htm, accessed 14 October 2006, and for the Hearst Building waterfall etc see http://www.hearstcorp.com/tower/, accessed 14 October 2006. 11. For Weiss/Manfredi, see Peter Reed, Groundswell: Constructing the Contemporary <strong>Landscape</strong>, MoMA (New York), 2005, pp 11–123, and online at http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/2004/groundswell.html, accessed 14 October 2006. For High Line, New York, see http://www.thehighline.org/, accessed 14 October 2006. Weiss/Manfredi, Seattle Waterfront Sculpture Park, Seattle, Washington, 2005 A performative urbanism approach to ‘greening’ the city in three dimensions. A series <strong>of</strong> paths and terraces structures a rhizomatic path for pedestrians, punctuated by pavilions and displays, over highways and railway tracks down to the seashore. Beneath the path a network <strong>of</strong> pipes removes methane pollution from the brownfield site and provides services for the ramps as settings for art installations and performance spaces. Text © 2007 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Images: pp 24-5 © Ken Smith <strong>Landscape</strong> Architect; pp 26-7 © West 8 Urban Design & <strong>Landscape</strong> <strong>Architecture</strong>; p 28 © Reprinted by permission <strong>of</strong> the St Joe Company, WindMark Beach, Florida; p 29 © City <strong>of</strong> Los Angeles Bureau <strong>of</strong> Engineering; p 30 © Courtesy Wikipedia, Elfguy personal photo released to public domain; p 31 © Los Angeles Forum for <strong>Architecture</strong> & Urban Design; pp 32-3(t) © Brian McGrath; p 32(b) © Estate <strong>of</strong> Robert Smithson/DACS, London/VAGA, New York 2007. Images courtesy Estate <strong>of</strong> Robert Smithson, James Cohan Gallery, New York; p 33(b) © David Grahame Shane; p 34 © Victoria Marshall and Meta Brunzema; p 35 © Courtesy Weiss/Manfredi 35
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