Planning: Constructing Contemporary Landscape

"Nearly every significant landscape designed in recent years occupies a site that has been reinvented and reclaimed from obsolescence or degradation as cities in the postindustrial era remake their outdoor spaces. Groundswell portrays the surge of creativity in the contemporary created landscape by presenting a diverse selection of plazas, public parks and urban sectors -- found throughout the United States, Europe, Asia and the Middle east -- that have recently been completed or are in the process of being realized. These constructed landscapes illustrate many kinds of site, a multivalent term that includes the physical properties of the ground, its history, and the program for the new landscape." -- from the website. <http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/2005/groundswell/>