Description
| Product ID: | 9781138483934 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Meanings of Landscape |
| Subtitle: | Essays on Place, Space, Environment and Justice |
| Authors: | Author: Kenneth R. Olwig |
| Page Count: | 258 |
| Subjects: | Landscape architecture and design, Landscape art & architecture, The environment, Gardens (descriptions, history etc), The environment, Gardens (descriptions, history etc) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Compiling eighteen authoritative essays spanning an extensive academic career, Olwig presents explorations in landscape geography and architecture from an environmental humanities perspective. With influences from art, literature, theatre staging, and garden design, landscape has come to be viewed as a form of spatial scenery. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Routledge |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2019-02-26 |