Flights of imagination : aviation, landscape, design / Sonja Dümpelmann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Duempelmann, Sonja, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Airports--Location.

Airports.

Airports--Landscape architecture.

Land use--Planning.

Land use.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (pages cm)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville, Virginia ; London : University of Virginia Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In much the same way that views of the earth from the Apollo missions in the late 1960s and early 1970s led indirectly to the inauguration of Earth Day and the modern environmental movement, the dawn of aviation ushered in a radically new way for architects, landscape designers, urban planners, geographers, and archaeologists to look at cities and landscapes. As icons of modernity, airports facilitated the development of a global economy during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, reshaping the way people thought about the world around them. Professionals of the built environment awoke to the possibilities offered by the airports themselves as sites of design and by the electrifying new aerial perspective on landscape. In Flights of Imagination, Sonja D mpelmann follows the evolution of airports from their conceptualization as landscapes and cities to modern-day plans to turn decommissioned airports into public urban parks. The author discusses landscape design and planning activities that were motivated, legitimized, and facilitated by the aerial view. She also shows how viewing the earth from above redirected attention to bodily experience on the ground and illustrates how design professionals understood the aerial view as simultaneously abstract and experiential, detailed and contextual, harmful and essential. Along the way, D mpelmann traces this multiple dialectic from the 1920s to the land-camouflage activities during World War II, and from the environmental and landscape planning initiatives of the 1960s through today.

Contents:

Plans in the ai : the evolution of the airport landscape

Air-minded visions : the aerial view in early-twentieth-century landscape design and urban planning

"Cultivating beautiful air views" : designing and planning

With and for the aerial view

Concealing the land : invisible landscapes for war and peace

Conserving the land : the aerial view and environmental planning and design

From airfields to green fields : reclaiming airports as landscapes for urban ecology.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780813935843

0813935849

OCLC:

889552202

Publisher Number:

2027/heb33239 hdl