The Meanings of Landscape: Essays on Place, Space, Environment and Justice

ISBN-13: 9781138483927 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 258 str.

Kenneth Olwig

Opis

Compiling eighteen authoritative essays spanning an extensive academic career, Olwig presents explorations in landscape geography and architecture from an environmental humanities perspective. With influences from art, literature, theatre staging, and garden design, landscape has come to be viewed as a form of spatial scenery.

Spis treści

Foreword by Tim Ingold.  Introduction.  1. Recovering the Substantive Nature of Landscape  2. Landscape, Place and the State of Progress  3. Choros, Place and the Spatialization of Landscape  4. Are Islanders Insular? A Personal View  5. The Case of the "Missing" Mask: Performance, Theatre, Ætherial Space and the Practice of Landscape/Architecture  6. Performing on the Landscape versus Doing Landscape: Perambulatory Practice, Sight and the Senses of Belonging  7. Heidegger, Latour and the Reification of Things: the Inversion and Spatial Enclosure of the Substantive Landscape - The Lake District Case  8. Transcendent Space, Reactionary-Modernism and the "Diabolic" Sublime: Walter Christaller, Edgar Kant, and the Landscape Origins of Modern Spatial Science and Planning  9. Geese, Elves, and the Duplicitous, "Diabolical" Landscaped Space and Wild Nature of Reactionary Modernism: Holgersson, Hägerstrand, and Lorenz

O autorze

Kenneth R. Olwig is Professor Emeritus of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden.