[PDF] Landscape Meanings And Values eBook

Author : Edmund C. Penning-Rowsell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 17,55 MB
Release : 2022-03-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1000562360

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First published in 1986, Landscape Meanings and Values presents a major contribution to the debate concerning the relationship between theory and practice in landscape analysis and planning. It brings together a number of the most eminent researchers, commentators and practitioners from both the United States of America and Britain to pursue the fundamental meanings and values in landscape. The insights into the theory behind landscape management will force a fundamental rethink of the role of landscape architect and land management. Academic researchers will find the feedback from eminent practitioners a stimulation for more practical research. The collection of ideas in the last chapter provides a unique synthesis of the need for an expansion of study into the fundamental significance of landscape today. This book will be of value to students of geography, environmental studies, landscape architecture and land management.

Author : Taylor & Francis Group
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 28,11 MB
Release : 2022-03-15
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ISBN : 9781032218373

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First published in 1986, Landscape Meanings and Values presents a major contribution to the debate concerning the relationship between theory and practice in landscape analysis and planning. The insights into the theory behind landscape management will force a fundamental rethink of the role of landscape architect.

Author : Kenneth R. Olwig
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 31,61 MB
Release : 2019-02-12
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1351053515

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Compiling nine authoritative essays spanning an extensive academic career, author Kenneth R. Olwig presents explorations in landscape geography and architecture from an environmental humanities perspective. With influences from art, literature, theatre staging, architecture, and garden design, landscape has come to be viewed as a form of spatial scenery, but this reading captures only a narrow representation of landscape meaning today. This book positions landscape as a concept shaped through the centuries, evolving from place to place to provide nuanced interpretations of landscape meaning. The essays are woven together to gather an international approach to understanding the past and present importance of landscape as place and polity, as designed space, as nature, and as an influential factor in the shaping of ideas in a just social and physical environment. Aimed at students, scholars, and researchers in landscape and beyond, this illustrated volume traces the idea of landscape from the ancient polis and theatre through to the present day.

Author : Paul Readman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 24,26 MB
Release : 2018-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1108424732

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The relationship between landscape and identity is explored to reveal how Englishness encompasses the urban and rural, and the north and south.

Author : Josep-Maria Mallarach
Publisher : Kasparek Verlag
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 13,61 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Conservation of natural resources
ISBN : 3925064605

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Documents, using case studies, the non-material values that are to be found in protected landscapes.

Author : Isa Bala Muhammad
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 44,6 MB
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1622733479

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The book provides readers with insights on how cultural landscapes are conceptualised under two major realms of tangible and intangible values as exemplified in this study of a rural Nupe community in central Nigeria. Equally important are the people-space and place relationship which results in a sense of place. The cultural values of communities are a product of both natural as well as the social setting which begins with the family. Accordingly, this book showcases how the concept of family structure shapes the architecture of the domestic space. Similarly, it also exemplifies how tangible and intangible cultural values are constituted within the domestic space as well as the entire cultural landscape. The uniqueness of this book is on the empirical evidence which is based on the documentation of an eight-month ethnographic study which brought about the native’s resident perception of their cultural landscape. This aligns with the global call in which UNESCO is at the forefront advocating the need for the preservation of values and identities of cultural landscapes. More also is that scholars in Human geography, Anthropology, Ethnography, Architecture and Cultural landscape studies can relate to the cultural transactions discussed in different chapters this book. The concluding chapter of this book gives the deductions drawn from the cultural landscape values of Nupe community which resulted in the formulation of Grounded Theory with spatial implications.

Author : Peter Gizzi
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 23,18 MB
Release : 2003-10-08
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780819566645

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A visionary new work from an award-winning poet.

Author : Anne Whiston Spirn
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 47,40 MB
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780300082944

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This eloquent and powerful book combines poetry and pragmatism to teach the language of landscape. Anne Whiston Spirn, author of the award-winning The Granite Garden: Urban Nature and Human Design, argues that the language of landscape exists with its own syntax, grammar, and metaphors, and that we imperil ourselves by failing to learn to read and speak this language. To understand the meanings of landscape, our habitat, is to see the world differently and to enable ourselves to avoid profound aesthetic and environmental mistakes. Offering examples that range across thousands of years and five continents, Spirn examines urban, rural, and natural landscapes. She discusses the thought of renowned landscape authors--Thomas Jefferson, Frank Lloyd Wright, Frederick Law Olmsted, Lawrence Halprin--and of less well known pioneers, including Australian architect Glenn Murcutt and Danish landscape artist C. Th. Sørensen. She discusses instances of great landscape designers using landscape fluently, masterfully, and sometimes cynically. And, in a probing analysis of the many meanings of landscape, Spirn shows how one person's ideal landscape may be another's nightmare, how Utopian landscapes can be dark. There is danger when we lose the connection between a place and our understanding of it, Spirn warns, and she calls for change in the way we shape our environment, based on the notions of nature as a set of ideas and landscape as the expression of action and ideas in place.

Author : Michelle M. Metro-Roland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 13,57 MB
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 1317108132

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How do we re-theorize tourism? By drawing less on the Foucauldian notion of 'tourism as gazing' and instead focusing on the social construction of meaning in the landscape, this insightful book provides an innovative and compelling new approach to tourist studies. Arguing that in any view of the landscape and in tourism generally there is a multiplicity of insider and outsider meanings, the book grounds tourism studies within the framework of social theory, and particularly in the social theoretic approaches to landscape. Bringing together specialists in tourism and landscape studies to discuss the relationships between the two, it finds that issues of identity are a common thread and are raised with regard to the social construction of landscape and its portrayal through tourism. The international studies range in scale from regional to national, personal to political, and from local residents to international tourists, highlighting the multiplicity of interpretations and meanings between these scales.

Author : Sam Harris
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 38,86 MB
Release : 2011-09-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 143917122X

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Sam Harris dismantles the most common justification for religious faith--that a moral system cannot be based on science.