The main theme I understood that is most relevant to my field of landscape architecture is the idea of planning as an abstraction or idealization set by the ideator. When Sudeshna showed the slide in class of urban theorists it showed the lack of representation of all people in the decision-making process throughout history who have been underrepresented. The question of who is theorizing comes to play. As a designer and architect I would like my landscape process to include the normative process of design but also include people in the process who are not normally represented.
We must realize that the ideas of family and roles of women and society are inherently prescribed in the planning process and must be realized and challenged as evidenced in the morphology of the earlier European bourgeoisie suburb to the later American post-war suburb. Even now we see the ramifications of the societal outputs from our physical design of big houses, large Escalades and the privacy of a 'quiet' life. As younger generations have a change in the urban imagination, I imagine our physical and spatial patterns will include taking back the city, re-introducing ecologies into urban landscapes and demanding more inclusive design.
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