Main entry:

Rotenberg, Robert Louis, 1949-

Title & Author:

Landscape and power in Vienna / Robert Rotenberg.

Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©1995.

Description:

xviii, 385 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Notes:
"Published in cooperation with the Center for American Places, Harrisonburg, Virginia"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-376) and index.
Introduction: The Cultural Meaning of Landscape -- 1. The Making of the Viennese Landscape -- 2. Gardens of Order -- 3. Gardens of Liberty -- 4. Gardens of Domesticity -- 5. Gardens of Pleasure -- 6. Gardens of Reform -- 7. Gardens of Reaction -- 8. Gardens of Refuge -- 9. Gardens of Renewal -- 10. Gardens of Discovery -- Conclusion: Landscape and Metropolitan Knowledge.
Design: Christine Taylor.
Composition: Wilsted & Taylor Publishing Services.

Summary:

"Each group that has held political power in Vienna over the past three centuries has left its mark on the city's history, institutions, and architecture. In Landscape and Power in Vienna, Robert Rotenberg shows how such groups - monarchists and republicans, fascists and socialists - also influenced another, equally vital aspect of urban identity in this central European metropolis: the landscape. Working as both a historian and an ethnographer, Rotenberg examines the relationships among human experience, landscape design, and the ideas that design was meant to represent. Understanding this relationship, Rotenberg explains, makes it possible to examine a Viennese garden today and deduce the ideology of those who planted it." "From "Gardens of Order" and "Gardens of Liberty" to "Gardens of Reaction" and "Gardens of Renewal," the chapters of Landscape and Power in Vienna show how ideas leaders and citizens shared about landscape emerged in the kinds of gardens they produced. "Landscape itself is a language," Rotenberg concludes. "People learn the meanings of landscape in a city from the landscape itself.""--Jacket.

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ISBN:

0801849616 (alk. paper)
9780801849619 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Landscape gardening Austria Vienna.
Gardens Austria Vienna Design.
Landscape architecture Austria Vienna.
Architecture du paysage Autriche Vienne.
Jardins Architecture Autriche Vienne.
Landscape architecture
Gardens Design
Landscape gardening
Tuinen.
Parken.
Sociale klassen.
Gardens Austria Vienna.
Jardins Histoire Autriche Vienne (Autriche)
Paysage Histoire Autriche Vienne (Autriche)
Architecture du paysage Autriche Vienne (Autriche)
Architecture des jardins Autriche Vienne (Autriche)
Austria Vienna
Landscape design Related to Politics
Vienna (Austria)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 118551
Call No.: ID SB470.55.A9 R68; ID:95-B1638
Status: Available