Notes Towards a History of Agrarian Urbanism

[bracket], Actar, Bracket 1, Charles Waldheim, Essay, Low Density, Territory and mobility

Agricultural trends, Agronia, Archinet, Bracket, Broadacre, Ecological researches, Essay, Farming processes, Farming production, InfraNet, Landscape planning, Landscape utopias, Mapping speculation, Masterplan, New Statements on Nature, Notes towards a History of Urbanism, Regional patterns, Urban exploration, Urban Paradigms, Urban sprawl

Published in "Bracket 1 [on Farming]", 2010 -- https://actar.com/product/bracket-2-goes-soft/

An in-depth study of soft systems in design Bracket 2 examines physical and virtual soft systems, as they pertain to infrastructure, ecologies, landscapes, environments, and networks. In an era of declared crises—economic, ecological and climatic, amongst others—the notion of soft systems has gained increasing traction as a counterpoint to permanent, static and hard systems.