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Collage of the Garden for a Plant Collector, from the Gross.Max competition book.
techniques into contemporary landscapes is an activist
antidote to the slippage in meaning of urban places. Detached
from industrial history, and being overlaid by the nonplaces
of retail, the junk spaces they spawn when commercialism
becomes the sole motor for their development needs a holistic
landscape urbanism to bring a sense of direction.
Defining a sense of place in a contemporary European
context is an activity that the younger generation of
landscape architects have leverage to carry out at a
fundamental level. They do not do spur-of-the-moment
‘guerrilla gardening’ (although the London-based movement
of the same name has made rapid headway, and recently
received an award for the ‘greening’ of Elephant and Castle
from Southwark Council). Rather, their work is developersanctioned
aesthetic activism, and in activating nature they
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