Routes, roads and landscapes / edited by Mari Hvattum. [et. al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hvattum, Mari, 1966-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Landscape assessment.

Geographical perception.

Roads.

Scenic byways.

Automobile travel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (267 pages) : illustrations, tables, photographs

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2016.

Summary:

Routes and roads make their way into and across the landscape, defining it as landscape and making it accessible for many kinds of uses and perceptions. Bringing together outstanding scholars from cultural history, geography, philosophy, and a host of other disciplines, this collection examines the complex entanglement between routes and landscapes. It traces the changing conceptions of the landscape from the Enlightenment to the present day, looking at how movement has been facilitated, imagined and represented and how such movement, in turn, has conditioned understandings of the landscape. A particular focus is on the modern transportation landscape as it came into being with the canal, the railway, and the automobile. These modes of transport have had a profound impact on the perception and conceptualization of the modern landscape, a relationship investigated in detail by authors such as Gernot Böhme, Sarah Bonnemaison, Tim Cresswell, Finola O'Kane, Charlotte Klonk, Peter Merriman, Christine Macy, David Nye, Vittoria Di Palma, Charles Withers, and Thomas Zeller.

Contents:

section I. Moving through the landscape

section II. The route as icon and occurrence

section III. Landscapes of mobility.

Notes:

First published 2011 by Ashgate Publishing.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781351902380

1351902385

9781138246140

113824614X

9781315243887

1315243881

OCLC:

965542764