Since 1990 James Corner has led the field of landscape architecture

out of an intellectually and professionally marginalized position,

and into an active and critical practice that shapes cultural values and
public life. Through extensive writings and built work, including the
High Line in New York City, Corner’s influence has reached far beyond
the disciplinary limits of landscape architecture.

The Landscape Imagination brings together Corner’s written scholarship

and addresses topics including theory in landscape architecture,
creativity and processes of design generation, landscape architecture
as a strategic medium, and reflections on built projects. The essays included
have had significant impact on landscape architecture, urban design,
and allied fields, and reflect how Corner’s writings affect the built work
of his thriving practice. Bringing together these works of highly disciplined
scholarship provides an essential reference for those devoted to
building the future of our cities.

James Corner is founder and director of the New York–based landscape

architecture and urban design studio James Corner Field Operations.

Alison Bick Hirsch is an assistant professor in landscape architecture

at the University of Southern California.

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The Collected Essays of James Corner

1990 – 2010

James Corner and Alison Bick Hirsch, editors

P r i nc e ton A rc h i t e c t u r a l P r e s s

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000 Preface — James Corner
000 Introduction — Alison Bick Hirsch

1 — THEORY
000 Critical Thinking and Landscape Architecture, 1991
000 “Sounding the Depths”—Origins, Theory, and Representation, 1990
000 Three Tyrannies of Contemporary Theory, 1991
000 Recovering Landscape as a Critical Cultural Practice, 1999

2 — REPRESENTATION AND CREATIVITY

000 Aerial Representation: Irony and Contradiction in an Age
of Precision, 1996
000 Drawing and Making in the Landscape Medium, 1992
000 The Agency of Mapping: Speculation, Critique, and Invention, 1999
000 Eidetic Operations and New Landscapes, 1999
000 Ecology and Landscape as Agents of Creativity, 1997

3 — LANDSCAPE URBANISM
000 Not Unlike Life Itself: Landscape Strategy Now, 2004
000 Landscape Urbanism, 2003
000 Landscraping, 2001
000 Terra Fluxus, 2006

4 — PRACTICE
000 Practice: Operation and Effect, 2010
000 Botanical Urbanism, 2005
000 Hunt’s Haunts: History, Reception, and Criticism on the Design
of the High Line, 2009

000 Afterword — Richard Weller

000 Acknowledgments
000 Complete Bibliography of James Corner