Landscapes in the Making

Stephen Daniels, Dell Upton

How are landscapes created? Landscapes in the Making goes beyond professional design and planning to examine the social range of knowledge, technique, and imagination in the making and meaning of landscapes—from the work of quarrying and construction to that of cultivation, maintenance, stewardship, salvage, reclamation, ritual, and remembrance. Deploying an array of documentary, visual, and field sources, this volume brings to life the agency and skill of diverse and often disregarded peoples, in a range of periods and places, working in often demanding, precarious, and coercive conditions. Chapters focus on the physical and social worlds of trash dumps, gravel pits, and abandoned canneries as well as on construction sites for churches, palaces, parks, gardens, and government buildings. In addition to addressing local place-making, the volume surveys wider regional and international geographies of movement, both of people and materials. The landscapes described are far from finished—they are provisional, and always in the making.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Foreword
• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: The Labor of Landmaking
• Chapter 3: Post–Civil War Black Builders in North Carolina
• Chapter 4: “The Negroes Alone Work” - The Use of Enslaved Craftsmen in the Construction of the United States Capitol
• Chapter 5: Migration and Maintenance - Mesoamerican Making of Landscapes in El Norte
• Chapter 6: Cantera Stone and Mexican Masons - The Making of Migratory Landscapes in a Transnational Arena
• Chapter 7: The Making of Il Gesù in Sixteenth-Century Rome - Labor in the Urban Landscape
• Chapter 8: Multi-locality of an Ancient Maya City - Archaeology, Tourism, and Indigenous Landscapes at Palenque in Chiapas, Mexico
• Chapter 9: African American Places in the Making - Freedom-Colony Creation in Digital Spaces
• Chapter 10: The Making of the Ijebu Cultural Landscape through Rituo-spatial Practices
• Chapter 11: Making Tompkins Square Park - An Activist Landscape in Nineteenth-Century Kleindeutschland
• Chapter 12: A Garden of Scrawls and Scribbles - Amsterdam’s Notarial Records as Evidence of Everyday Landscape Creation in the Eighteenth-Century City
• Chapter 13: Working Country - Landscape and Labor in Nineteenth-Century English Art and Design
• Contributors
• Index