Title & Author:

Landscape and agency : critical essays / edited by Tim Waterman and Ed Wall.

Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge : imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.
©2018

Description:

xviii, 198 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Landscapes of post-history / Ross Exo Adams -- Reciprocal landscapes: material portraits in New York City and elsewhere / Jane Hutton -- Agency, advocacy, vocabulary: three landscape projects / Jane Wolff -- The law is at fault? Landscape rights and 'agency' in international law / Amy Strecker -- How to live in a jungle: the (bio)politics of the park as urban model / Maria Shéhérazade Giudici -- Planetary aesthetics / Peg Rawes -- The closed landscapes of Sverdlovsk-44 and Krasnoyarsk-26 / Katya Larina -- Rhythm, agency, scoring and the city / Paul Cureton -- Publicity and propriety: democracy and manners in Britain's public landscape / Tim Waterman -- The power of the incremental: agronomic investment in Lisbon's Chelas valley / Jill Desimini -- Post-landscape or the potential of other relations with the land / Ed Wall -- Activating equitable landscapes and critical design assemblages in Bangkok / Camillo Boano, William Hunter -- Agency and artifice in the environment of neoliberalism / Douglas Spencer.

Summary:

Landscape and Agency explores how landscape, as an idea, a visual medium and a design practice, is organized, appropriated and framed in the transformation of places, from the local to the global. It highlights how the development of the idea of agency in landscape theory and practice can fundamentally change our engagement with future landscapes. Including a wide range of international contributions, each illustrated chapter investigates the many ways in which the relationship between the ideas and practices of landscape, and social and subjective formations and material processes, are invested with agency. They critically examine the role of landscape in processes of contemporary urban development, environmental debate and political agendas and explore how these relations can be analysed and rethought through a dialogue between theory and practice. Book jacket.

ISBN:

9781138125568 (hardback)
1138125563 (hardback)
9781138125575 (paperback)
1138125571 (paperback)
(ebook)
9781315647401

Subject:

Landscape architecture.
Architecture du paysage.

Added entries:

Waterman, Tim, editor.
Wall, Ed, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 298681
Call No.: BIB 244812
Status: External loan