Landscape Biographies : Geographical, Historical and Archaeological Perspectives on the Production and Transmission of Landscapes /
Explores the long and complex histories of landscapes from personal, social and cultural perspectives.
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Amsterdam :
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[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- Preface / Hayden Lorimer. 1. Landscape biographies, key issues / Jan Kolen and Johannes Renes: Introduction
- Biographical approaches of landscape, a short history
- Landscapes as life worlds
- Key issues and topics of this volume
- The structure of this book. 2. The marsh of modernity / Edward H. Huijbens and Gisli Palsson: Introduction
- Nature as we know it
- Mapping the marsh
- 'Sweet is the Swamp'
- In the bog
- Grand engineering
- The scenic and the unscenic
- To conclude. 3. Biographies of biotopes / Jan Kolen: Introduction, biotopes
- From the primordial landscape to socialized nature
- Fens and birds
- The 'co-scripting' of biotopes
- From dikes and dams to disasters
- conclusion. 4. Automobile authorship of landscapes / Edward Huijbens and Karl Benediktsson: Introduction
- Engaging with the Highlands
- Establishing authorship
- Machines and morality
- Conservation, authority and authorship
- Concluding remarks. 5. Authenticity, artifice and the Druidical Temple of Avebury / Mark Gillings and Joshua Pollard: Writing a biography
- A search for the authentic Avebury
- Stukeley records a temple
- Keiller builds one
- Purity of vision
- What is Avebury?
- Worshipping at the Temple
- Ancestral values
- Authenticity, artifice and Avebury
- Postscript, time for a new Avebury to emerge? 6. Places that matter / Ludvig Papmehl-Dufay: Introduction
- The importance of places
- Landscape biographies in archaeology
- Biographies of megalithic monuments
- Öland today and in the Neolithic
- The Mysinge Passage graves
- Conclusion, places that matter
- Epilogue, the meaning of archaeology. 7. What future for the life-history approach to prehistoric monuments in the landscape? / Cornelius Holtorf: The unbelievable mess of the past
- The problem of identity
- Conclusion, from monuments to landscapes. 8. "To preserve the terrain in its present state" / Michiel Purmer: Introduction
- THe Eerder Achterbroek Project in the context of Dutch
- Landscape research
- Eerde and the Eerder Achterbroek
- Research method
- Landscape characteristics and landscape change
- The Baron and hist landscape
- The authors of the Eerder Achterbroek
- Conclusions. 9. The quiet authors of an early modern palatial landscape / Hanneke Ronnes: Introduction
- The early palace
- Quiet times
- Legacy
- Aged abode
- State matters and distractions
- Conclusion. 10. Piet Mondrian's Victory Boogie Woogie, 1942-44 / Jürgen Stoye: Introduction
- THe biography of the landscape
- Marwyn Samuels
- Michel de Certeau
- Victory Boogie Woogie
- Mondrian
- Changes
- Mondrian in New York
- The rhythm of New York
- Victory Boogie Woogie as authored landscape. 11. Shanghai, the biography of a city / David Koren: Introduction
- Landscape biography and the city
- The early colonial city, Shanghai in the 19th century (1842-1899)
- Part of the world system, the heydays (1900-1949)
- Off the radar, the dark years of communism (1949-1989)
- 'In the picture' again, the metropolis awakens (1990-present)
- Conclusion. 12. A kaleidoscopic biography of an ordinary landscape / John de Jong: Introduction
- Landscape dynamics and spatial order
- Continuity of a spatial order
- Transition and transformation
- The process of landscape development
- Framed spatial practices
- Spatial development as private venture
- Socio-politically-based development
- Landscape for the use of leisure
- Iconography of the landscape, a dynamic picture
- Boulevard of social standing and power
- Progress and nostalgia
- The ordinariness of landscape and the importance of everyday practices
- Conclusion. 13. The cultural biography of a street / Wim Hupperetz: Introduction
- Historical research traditions
- The historical city centre as playground for city planners
- Bricks and people
- Housing culture, parcels, building blocks and the body of houses
- Structure
- Historical notion
- Dynamic cultural heritage
- Tradition and renewal
- Recommendations. 14. Post-industrial coal-mining landscapes and the evolution of mining memory / Felix van Veldhoven: Introduction
- Remembering and forgetting in the landscape
- The post-industrial mining landscape of Dutch and Belgian Limburg
- Dutch Limburg
- The post-industrial mining landscape
- The changing will to forget
- Conclusion. 15. Fatal attraction / Rob van der Laarse: Unwanted memory
- Purity and modernity
- Making Heimatscapes
- Hidden continuities, from camps to memorial spaces
- Through the eyes of the perpetrators? 16. A biography for an emerging urban district / Svava Riesto: Introduction
- The Carlsberg site, seen and overlooked
- Overlooked spaces
- Landscape biography for urban redevelopment sites
- Carlsberg, an unexpected turn
- Design survey I, topography
- Landscape biography of a hill
- Design survey II, transportation equipment
- Landscape biography of a route
- Unravelling surveys of Carlsberg
- Prospects for future landscape biography. 17. Layered landscapes / Johannes Renes: Introduction
- Rome
- The Dutch rural landscape
- landscape layers in planning
- Conclusion. 18. Biographies of landscape, Rebala Heritage Reserve, Estonia / Helen Sooväli-Sepping: Theoretical starting points
- Methodological considerations
- Nationalization of the past, biography of the Rebala landscape
- Protection, for whom and why?
- Whose heritage?
- Discussion.