Landscapes of Housing: Design and Planning in the History of Environmental Thought

Jeanne Haffner is Director and Chief Curator of the Jones Beach Energy & Nature Center. She is the author of The View from Above: The Science of Social Space (2013) and has written for Arch+, BBC Radio 3, The Guardian, Urban Omnibus, Landscape Architecture Magazine, The Hudson River Valley Review, and other publications. She was the inaugural postdoctoral fellow in urban landscape studies at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection (Harvard) and has held visiting positions at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, and the Center for Metropolitan Studies at the Technical University in Berlin. She has taught at Harvard and Brown Universities and holds a Certificate in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) from the Harvard University Center for Geographic Analysis.

Introduction: Housing and/as Landscape (Jeanne Haffner); Part I: Shaping Society; 1. "This Scene Is Itself Living": Human Geography and the Ecologies of Dwelling, 1870-1970 (Peter Ekman); 2. The Chicago Alternative: Vernacular Forms for the Garden City (Daniel Bluestone); 3. From Ecology to Pathology: The Landscapes of Midcentury Public Housing and the Shifting Grounds of Environment and Health (Sara Jensen Carr); 4. From Garden Settlement to Cooperative Economy: Housing, Labor, and Socialization Theory in Vienna and Berlin, 1920-1925 (Sophie Hochhausl); 5. Environmental Speculations: Landscape Suburbanism between Housing and Planning, 1920s-1940s (Alvaro Sevilla-Buitrago); Part II: Shaping Individuals; 6. "Not Just Barberry:" A Political Ecology of the Swedish "Concrete Suburbs," 1960-1981 (Jennifer Mack); 7. Expanding Danish Welfare Landscapes: Steen Eiler Rasmussen and Tingbjerg Housing Estate (Ellen Braae and Henriette Steiner); 8. Letting the Dust Settle: The Landscapes of Open Space in the Model Housing Developments QT8, Milan, and Hansaviertel, West-Berlin (Sonja Dumpelmann); 9. French Housing and the Environment, 1945-1975: From Public Health to Private Space (Nicole C. Rudolph); Part III: Shaping the Environment; 10. Reciprocal Interaction: Architecture and Landscape in the Early Work of Ian McHarg (Kathleen John-Alder); 11. Roberto Burle Marx and the Modern Gardens of Brazilian Social Housing (Catherine Seavitt Nordenson); 12. Supermeasurement for Superarchitecture: Rethinking Landscape, Building Technology, and Dwelling for the Twenty-first Century (Terri Peters)