Landscape, Wylie

Название: Landscape and the Ideology of Nature in Exurbia
ISBN: 0415637155 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415637152
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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This book explores the role of the ideology of nature in producing urban and exurban sprawl. It examines the ironies of residential development on the metropolitan fringe, where the search for "nature" brings residents deeper into the world from which they are imagining their escape--of Federal Express, technologically mediated communications, global supply chains, and the anonymity of the global marketplace--and where many of the central features of exurbia--very low-density residential land use, monster homes, and conversion of forested or rural land for housing--contribute to the very problems that the social and environmental aesthetic of exurbia attempts to avoid. The volume shows how this contradiction--to live in the green landscape, and to protect the green landscape from urbanization--gets caught up and represented in the ideology of nature, and how this ideology, in turn, constitutes and is constituted by the landscapes being urbanized.

Автор: Sun-Kee Hong; Jianguo Wu; Jae-Eun Kim; Nobukazu Na
Название: Landscape Ecology in Asian Cultures
ISBN: 4431540849 ISBN-13(EAN): 9784431540847
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: Cultural landscapes are a product of the interactions between humans and natural settings. To understand and manage such complex landscapes, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches are necessary, emphasizing the integration of natural and social sciences and considering multiple landscape functions.

Автор: James L. Jr Wescoat; Douglas M. Johnston
Название: Political Economies of Landscape Change
ISBN: 9048174562 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789048174560
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Описание: This hugely important and timely work asks how politics and economics transform the landscapes we inhabit. It explores the connections between political economy and landscape change through a series of conceptual essays and case studies.

Автор: Storm
Название: Post-Industrial Landscape Scars
ISBN: 1137025980 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137025982
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Описание: Post-industrial landscape scars are traces of 20th century utopian visions of society; In this book, Anna Storm explores post-industrial landscape scars caused by nuclear power production, mining, and iron and steel industry in Malmberget, Kiruna, Barseback and Avesta in Sweden;

Автор: Stilgoe
Название: Landscape And Images
ISBN: 0813937531 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813937533
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: John Stilgoe is just looking around. This is more difficult than it sounds, particularly in our mediated age, when advances in both theory and technology too often seek to replace the visual evidence before our own eyes rather than complement it. We are surrounded by landscapes charged with our past, and yet from our earliest schooldays we are instructed not to stare out the window. Someone who stops to look isn’t only a rarity; he or she is suspect.Landscape and Images records a lifetime spent observing America’s constructed landscapes. Stilgoe’s essays follow the eclectic trains of thought that have resulted from his observation, from the postcard preference for sunsets over sunrises to the concept of ""teen geography"" to the unwillingness of Americans to walk up and down stairs. In Stilgoe's hands, the subject of jack o’ lanterns becomes an occasion to explore centuries-old concepts of boundaries and trespassing, and to examine why this originally pagan symbol has persisted into our own age. Even something as mundane as putting the cat out before going to bed is traced back to fears of unwatched animals and an untended frontier fireplace. Stilgoe ponders the forgotten connections between politics and painted landscapes and asks why a country whose vast majority lives less than a hundred miles from a coast nonetheless looks to the rural Midwest for the classic image of itself.At times breathtaking in their erudition, the essays collected here are as meticulously researched as they are elegantly written. Stilgoe’s observations speak to specialists—whether they be artists, historians, or environmental designers—as well as to the common reader. Our landscapes constitute a fascinating history of accident and intent. The proof, says Stilgoe, is all around us.

Автор: Berque
Название: Thinking through Landscape
ISBN: 0415821169 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415821162
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Описание: Our attitude to nature has changed over time. This book explores the historical, literary and philosophical origins of the changes in our attitude to nature that allowed environmental catastrophes to happen.The book presents a philosophical reflection on human societies’ attitude to the environment, informed by the history of the concept of landscape and the role played by the concept of nature in the human imagination. It features a wealth of examples from around the world to help understand the contemporary environmental crisis in the context of both the built and natural environment. Berque locates the start of this change in human labour and urban elites being cut off from nature. Nature became an imaginary construct masking our real interaction with the natural world. He argues that this gave rise to a theoretical and literary appreciation of landscape at the expense of an effective practical engagement with nature. This mindset is a general feature of the world's civilizations, manifested in similar ways in different cultures across Europe, China, North Africa and Australia. Yet this approach did not have disastrous consequences until the advent of western industrialization.As a phenomenological hermeneutics of human societies’ environmental relation to nature, the book draws on Heideggerian ontology and Veblen’s sociology. It provides a powerful distinction between two attitudes to landscape: the tacit knowledge of earlier peoples engaged in creating the landscape through their work - “landscaping thought”- and the explicit theoretical and aesthetic attitudes of modern city dwellers who love nature while belonging to a civilization that destroys the landscape - “landscape thinking”. This book gives a critical survey of landscape thought and theory for students, researchers and anyone interested in human societies’ relation to nature in the fields of landscape studies, environmental philosophy, cultural geography and environmental history.