PLAN NYC does not push the envelope far enough, says Schwartz
American landscape architect Martha Schwartz has stirred up a debate on sustainability and urban planning.
In an interview for The Green Room - a series of opinion articles on the BBC website - Schwartz discusses collectivisation and sustainability, compaction of the urban landscape and PLAN NYC.
Schwartz also explains why she believes landscape architects lag behind architects, stating: "...sustainability itself is a cultural notion, and that a building or a place must have value to people if it is to be used sustainably.
"It is therefore vital that landscape architects assert this both in our advocacy and in our actual work; for so long as we trail behind the architects by topping their buildings with green roofs, we are simply fiddling while Rome burns."
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