The Meanings of Landscape
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The Meanings of Landscape

Essays on Place, Space, Environment and Justice

  1. 258 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Meanings of Landscape

Essays on Place, Space, Environment and Justice

About this book

Compiling nine authoritative essays spanning an extensive academic career, author Kenneth R. Olwig presents explorations in landscape geography and architecture from an environmental humanities perspective. With influences from art, literature, theatre staging, architecture, and garden design, landscape has come to be viewed as a form of spatial scenery, but this reading captures only a narrow representation of landscape meaning today.

This book positions landscape as a concept shaped through the centuries, evolving from place to place to provide nuanced interpretations of landscape meaning. The essays are woven together to gather an international approach to understanding the past and present importance of landscape as place and polity, as designed space, as nature, and as an influential factor in the shaping of ideas in a just social and physical environment.

Aimed at students, scholars, and researchers in landscape and beyond, this illustrated volume traces the idea of landscape from the ancient polis and theatre through to the present day.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2019
Print ISBN
9781138483927
eBook ISBN
9781351053518
Topic
Architecture
Subtopic
Urban Planning & Landscaping

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Epigraph
  3. Half-Title
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. List of figures
  9. Foreword by Tim Ingold
  10. Acknowledgements
  11. Introduction: Landscape, philology, and the environmental geohumanities
  12. 1 Recovering the substantive nature of landscape
  13. 2 Landscape, place, and the state of progress
  14. 3 Choros, place, and the spatialization of landscape
  15. 4 Are islanders insular? A personal view
  16. 5 The case of the “missing” mask: Performance, theater, ætherial space, and the practice of landscape/architecture
  17. 6 Performing on the landscape versus doing landscape: Perambulatory practice, sight, and the sense of belonging
  18. 7 Heidegger, Latour, and the reification of things: The inversion and spatial enclosure of the substantive landscape – The Lake District case
  19. 8 Transcendent space, reactionary modernism, and the “diabolic” sublime: Walter Christaller, Edgar Kant, and the landscape origins of modern spatial science and planning
  20. 9 Geese, elves, and the duplicitous, “diabolical” landscaped space and wild nature of reactionary modernism: Holgersson, Hägerstrand, and Lorenz
  21. References
  22. Index