Landscape Architecture Research: Inquiry, Strategy, Design iPad, Android, PC, PDF This is a transnational project, coauthored by professors living and working on opposite sides of the world. The translational challenges of the work, however, far exceeded what we originally anticipated. Our international partnership has forced us to reconcile different academic cultures, practices, and standards—a microcosm of the wider challenges addressed in the text itself. It then goes without saying that this is also an ambitious project. Both authors readily acknowledge that any book about the state of research in landscape architecture will be an incomplete, evolving project—simply by defi nition. It is also a work in progress in the sense that the arguments are provisional and intended as a constructive contribution to an extended debate that will continue to shape our discipline. Our propositions, classifi cations, and examples will no doubt provoke and stimulate varying reactions, and we look forward to our colleagues’ response. It is also important to acknowledge that we are both generalists, having been privileged for many years with an unusual vantage on contemporary research in the fi eld of landscape architecture from the perspective of editors, educators, and scholars. This is both an advantage and a potential limitation. In reviewing and interpreting the diversity of research strategies within our discipline we have had to simplify and translate. We hope that our own process of learning the very different traditions involved has not compromised their integrity or richness, and will help others facing the same interpretive challenge. Landscape Architecture Research: Inquiry, Strategy, Design M. Elen Deming dan Simon Swaffi eld Copyright © 2011 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All rights reserved. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey About the Author M. Elen Deming, DDes, ASLA, RLA, is Professor and Head of Landscape Architecture at the University of Illinois. She is past editor of the award-winning Landscape Journal, as well as current President and Fellow of the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture. She currently serves as on the editorial advisory boards for the European Journal of Landscape Architecture and Landscape Journal. Simon R. Swaffield, PhD, FNZILA, is Professor of Landscape Architecture at Lincoln University in Canterbury, New Zealand. In 2007, he received the Outstanding Research and Communication Award from CELA. He is founding editor of Landscape Review and frequently authors and edits journal articles.
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