Theme 1

Contemporary debates and current topics

Part 1

Giannetto R.F. (2013). “The Use of History in Landscape Architectural Nostalgia“, Change over time, vol. 3 no. 1: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/504756.

Hunt, J.D. (2004). Historical Ground: The role of history in contemporary landscape architecture. Routledge & CRC Press. (introduction)

Swaffield, S. R. (2006). “Theory and Critique in Landscape Architecture: Making Connections”, Journal of Landscape Architecture, 1(1), 22–29. https://doi.org/10.1080/18626033.2006.9723361

Way, T. (2020). “Why History for Designers?” (Part 1), PLATFORM. Retrieved June 16, 2022, from https://www.platformspace.net/home/why-history-for-designers-part-1+ Part 2

Part 2

Hirsch, A. (2025). Is Landscape Elitist? In Landscape Is…! Essays on the Meaning of Landscape (edited by Gareth Doherty and Charles Waldheim. Routledge: London and New York

Hutton, J. (2020). Reciprocal Landscapes: Stories of material movements, Routledge. (Introduction + one additional chapter that will be decided at course start).

Yiğit-Turan, B., Hellström-Reimer, M., Keravel, S., Leger-Smith, A., Lima, F., Arana, U. R., & Benedetti, U. W. (2022). Landscape architecture criticism in the Anthropocene. Journal of Landscape Architecture, 17(3), 4–5. https://doi.org/10.1080/18626033.2022.2195222

Theme 2

Site explorations

Corner, J. (1999). “The Agency of Mapping: Speculation, Critique and Invention”, in Mappings, edited by Denis Cosgrove. 213-52. London: Reaktion.

Hutton, J. (2017). Material as Method, In Material Culture (edited by Jane Hutton). Berlin: Jovis.

Theme 3

Place

Part 1: place

Hayden, Dolores. (2009). “Urban Landscape History: The Sense of Place and the Politics of Space”, Understanding Ordinary Landscapes, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009, pp. 111-133. https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300185614-010

Tuck, E. and McKenzie, M. (2015). Place in Research: Theory, Methodology and Methods, Routledge (pp.1-48)

Part 2: Place making/unmaking

Davis, Ujijji, “The Bottom: The Emergence and Erasure of Black American Urban Landscapes”, Avery Review 34 (October 2018), https://www. averyreview.com/issues/34/the-bottom.

Anguelovski, I., & Gottlieb, R. (2014). Neighborhood As Refuge: Community Reconstruction, Place Remaking, and Environmental Justice in the City. MIT Press. http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/slub-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3339756 (chapter 6)

Yigit Turan, B. (2021). “Superkilen: Coloniality, Citizenship and Border Politics”, In Landscape Citizenships. Tim Waterman, Jane Wolff, and Ed Wall (eds.). New York and London: Routledge.

Theme 4

***Subjectivity ***

**Part 1: positionality, power and privilege, reflexivity **

Carlson, D., & Collard-Arias, M. (2022). “Trajectories of practice across time: Moving beyond the histories of landscape architecture”, Landscape Research, 47(1), 25–34. https://doi.org/10.1080/01426397.2021.1989393

Schmidt, S.J. (2017) “Hacked Landscapes: Tensions, Borders, and Positionality in Spatial Literacy”, Journal of Geography, 116:3, 99-108, DOI: 10.1080/00221341.2016.1257046

Parikh, A. (2020). “Insider-outsider as process: Drawing as reflexive feminist methodology during fieldwork”, Cultural Geographies, 27(3), 437–452. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474474019887755

Richards, M-L (2019). “Out of Line. Erasure and vulnerability as sites of subversion”, Future Architecture Library, (n.d.). Retrieved March 5, 2021, from https://futurearchitecturelibrary.org/archifutures-articles/volum-6-agency/out-of-line/

Warf, B. (2010). “Positionality”, in Encyclopedia of geography (Vol. 1, pp. 2258-2258). SAGE Publications, Inc., https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412939591.n913

Part 2: alternative modes of practice, co-production and agency

Brenner, N. (2016). “The agency of design in an age of urbanization—dialogue with Daniel Ibañez,” in Neil Brenner, Critique of Urbanization. Basel: Bauwelt Fundamente Series, Birkhäuser Verlag, 2016, 224-236.

Mitrasinovic, M. (2016). Concurrent Urbanities: Designing Infrastructures of Inclusion. Routledge (chapter 14)

Yiğit-Turan, B.; Cerulli, C. & Christ, M.C. (2025) “Getting Political in the Neoliberal City: Resistance, Transformation, and the Practice of Design for Social and Environmental Justice” “Getting Political” in the Neoliberal City: Resistance, Transformation, and the Practice of Design for Social and Environmental Justice”. pp:1-20

Theme 5

Reflecting on history

Andersson, T. (1994). “To Erase the Garden: Modernity in the Swedish Garden and Landscape, in Marc Treib (editor) Modern Landscape Architecture. MIT press

Claesson, R. (2017). “Doing and Re-doing Cultural Heritages: Making space for a variety of narratives”, (ed.)., in Meike Schalk, Thérèse Kristiansson, Ramia Mazé (Ed.), Feminist Futures of Spatial Practice: Materialisms, Activisms, Dialogues, Pedagogies, Projections (pp. 43-56).

Fabiola López-Durán. (2018). Eugenics in the Garden Transatlantic Architecture and the Crafting of Modernity,https://utpress.utexas.edu/books/lopez-duran-eugenics-in-the-garden. (introduction and epilogue, dive into any chapter you find interesting)

Schalk, M. (2017). Old News From a Contact Zone: Action Archive in Tensta. In The Social (Re)Production of Architecture. Routledge.