Landscape and agency : critical essays / edited by Ed Wall and Tim Waterman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wall, Ed, editor.

Waterman, Tim, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Landscapes.

Agent (Philosophy).

Human geography.

Urban ecology (Sociology).

Physical Description:

xviii, 198 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2018.

Summary:

Landscape and Agency explores how landscape, as an idea, a visual medium and a design practice, is organized, appropriated and framed in the transformation of places, from the local to the global. It highlights how the development of the idea of agency in landscape theory and practice can fundamentally change our engagement with future landscapes. Including a wide range of international contributions, each illustrated chapter investigates the many ways in which the relationship between the ideas and practices of landscape, and social and subjective formations and material processes, are invested with agency. They critically examine the role of landscape in processes of contemporary urban development, environmental debate and political agendas and explore how these relations can be analysed and rethought through a dialogue between theory and practice. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Landscapes of post-history / Ross Exo Adams Adams, Ross Exo 7

2 Reciprocal landscapes: material portraits in New York City and elsewhere / Jane Hutton Hutton, Jane 18

3 Agency, advocacy, vocabulary: three landscape projects / Jane Wolff Wolff, Jane 34

4 The law is at fault? Landscape rights and 'agency' in international law / Amy Strecker Strecker, Amy 52

5 How to live in a jungle: the (bio)politics of the park as urban model / Maria Shéhérazade Giudici Giudici, Maria Shéhérazade 65

6 Planetary aesthetics / Peg Rawes Rawes, Peg 78

7 The closed landscapes of Sverdlovsk-44 and Krasnoyarsk-26 / Katya Larina Larina, Katya 90

8 Rhythm, agency, scoring and the city / Paul Cureton Cureton, Paul 104

9 Publicity and propriety: democracy and manners in Britain's public landscape / Tim Waterman Waterman, Tim 117

10 The power of the incremental: agronomic investment in Lisbon's Chelas valley / Jill Desimini Desimini, Jill 131

11 Post-landscape or the potential of other relations with the land / Ed Wall Wall, Ed 144

12 Activating equitable landscapes and critical design assemblages in Bangkok / Camillo Boano Boano, Camillo, William Hunter Hunter, William 164

13 Agency and artifice in the environment of neoliberalism / Douglas Spencer Spencer, Douglas 177.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138125575

1138125563

9781138125568

1138125571

OCLC:

1007510354

Publisher Number:

99975081278