Binding: Paperback
Description: 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.
Title: The Meanings Of Landscape Essays On Place Space Environment And Justice
Author(s): Olwig Kenneth R.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9781138483934
Pages: 258 Pages, 10 Line Drawings, Black And White; 20 Halftones, Black And White; 30 Illustrations, Black
Publication Date: 2/26/2019
Category: Gardens (Descriptions, History Etc)