What stories does a place hold? Whose stories? And how are these stories told? Site, although central to practices of design, is rarely centered in stories about design. In response, Andrea Kahn and Carol J. Burns propose that thinking through site can ground places in their physical, historical, and social conditions. First published in 2005, Site Matters: Design Concepts, Histories, and Strategies, edited by Burns and Kahn, was an important contribution to understanding how landscape is situated and contested. In addition to filling a gap in literature about site that established its importance within multiple design fields, Site Matters reasserted site thinking as central to design processes. Rather than understanding site as a designer's idea of what it should become, or ignoring site altogether, the first edition of Site Matters established a critical conversation about how sites matter long before, and long after, landscape architects intervene.
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