The meanings of landscape : essays on place, space, environment and justice / Kenneth R. Olwig ; with a forward by Tim Ingold.
| Author/creator | Olwig, Kenneth author. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019. |
| Description | 1 online resource |
| Supplemental Content | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Recovering the substantive nature of landscape -- Landscape, place and the state of progress -- Choros, place and the spatialization of landscape -- Are islanders insular? : a personal view -- The case of the missing mask : performance, theater, aetherial space and the practice of landscape//architecture -- Performing on the landscape versus doing landscape : perambulatory practice, sight and the senses of belonging -- Heidegger, Latour and the reification of things : the inversion and spatial enclosure of the substantive landscape the Lake District case -- Transcendent space, reactionary-modernism and the diabolic sublime : Walter Christaller, Edgar Kant, and the landscape origins of modern spatial science and planning -- Geese, elves, and the duplicitous, diabolical landscaped space and wild nature of reactionary modernism : Holgersson, Hägerstrand, and Lorenz. |
| Abstract | Compiling eighteen 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: The meanings of landscape Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019. 9781138483927 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| Genre/form | Essays. |
| Genre/form | Essays. |
| LCCN | 2019716092 |
| ISBN | 9781351053532 ebk |
| ISBN | 1351053531 |
| ISBN | hbk |
| ISBN | pbk |
| ISBN | 9781351053518 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 1351053515 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 9781351053525 (electronic bk. ; PDF) |
| ISBN | 1351053523 (electronic bk. ; PDF) |
| ISBN | 9781351053501 (electronic bk. ; Mobipocket) |
| ISBN | 1351053507 (electronic bk. ; Mobipocket) |
| Standard identifier# | 40029229507 |
| Stock number | 9781351053518 Ingram Content Group |
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