The Countryside Ideal : Anglo-American Images of Landscape

ISBN-13: 9780415104340 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 256 str.

M. F. Bunce; Michael Bunce;Bunce Michael

Opis

One of the contradictions of modern urban civilization is the persistence of a nostalgia for rural life and landscape which has raised the countryside to an idealized status. The discussion of this phenomenon is frequently restricted to the relatively narrow perspectives of literary and intellectual history. This work attempts to broaden the analysis of the countryside ideal by exploring the relationships between its cultural origins and its manifestation in contemporary landscapes.

Recenzje

` ... is to be welcomed, not least of all because it provides the clearest and most comprehensive account yet of ways in which attitudes towards the countryside are embedded in a long history of urban-based gowth and change. The scholarly and authoritative text (enriched by a selection of telling illustrations) will be of immense value to researchers and students alike.' - Planning Perspectives

Spis treści

INTRODUCTION 1 THE MAKING OF AN IDEAL 2 THE ARMCHAIR COUNTRYSIDE 3 A PLACE IN THE COUNTRY 4 THE PEOPLE’S PLAYGROUND 5 THE COUNTRY IN THE CITY 6 THE COUNTRYSIDE MOVEMENT 7 REFLECTIONS

O autorze

Michael Bunce is Associate Professor of Geography at Scarborough College, University of Toronto, Canada.