... the most articulate and insightful debate on urbanism to surface in decades. The issues raised should be at the heart of any serious dialog about the human prospect. — Peter Calthorpe, author of Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change ... scrupulously expose[s] the extent to which Landscape Urbanism is but old modernist wine presented in new greenwashed wineskins. — Leon Krier, Louis Kahn Visiting Professor, Yale University Landscape Urbanism and its Discontents explores the debate around two competing paradigms. Landscape Urbanism is conceived as ecological in terms of natural processes, while New Urbanism engages ecology in terms of sociocultural processes. In this collection of essays, influential urban theorists delve into the tension between the two perspectives. While there should be significant overlap between Landscape Urbanism and New Urbanism , the former has assumed prominence amongst environmental administrators and critical theorists, whereas the latter has approached paradigmatic status in the market and among planning professionals. Given that both these power bases are at the forefront of sustainable urban design, the analysis — and potential reconciliation — offered by these essays may help catalyze a resolution to the various crises besetting the new century. This important collection of essays lays bare the comprehensive wrongheadedness at the foundation of Landscape Urbanist theory... We've known for decades that the best way to protect the landscape is to stay the heck away from it, collecting ourselves in dense, walkable cities. Any alternative to this time-tested model is still carbon-belching sprawl, however well it drains. — Jeff Speck, author of Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America Andrés Duany is a New Urbanist, a recipient of the Driehaus Prize, and principal at Duany Plater-Zyberk & Co. He is the author of three previous books on urbanism. Emily Talen is a professor at Arizona State University and the author of four previous books on urbanism.