Title & Author:

Routes, roads and landscapes / edited by Mari Hvattum [and others].

Publication:

Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT. : Ashgate Pub., ©2011.

Description:

xv, 248 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 x 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : routes, roads and landscapes / Mari Hvattum [and others] -- 1. King of the road : describing Norwegian landscapes in the eighteenth century / Brita Brenna -- 2. Flow : rivers, roads, routes and cartographies of leisure / Vittoria Di Palma -- 3.'To lead the curious to points of view' : the eighteenth-century design of Irish roads, routes and landscapes / Finola O'Kane -- 4. A road with a view : C.F. Vogt's painting of Krokkleiva / Torild Gjesvik -- 5. Landscape's imprint : on the physiognomy of plants around 1800 / Charlotte Klonk -- 6. Travel, en route writing, and the problem of correspondence / Charles W.J. Withers -- 7. Redefining the American sublime, from open road to Interstate / David E. Nye -- 8. The man who loved views : C.A. Pihl and the Making of the Modern Landscape / Mari Hvattum -- 9. Staging the driving experience : parkways in Germany and the United States / Thomas Zeller -- 10. The concept of flow in regional planning : Benton MacKaye's contribution to the Tennessee Valley Authority / Christine Macy, Sarah Bonnemaison -- 11. Aerocabs and skycar cities : utopian landscapes of mobility / Even Smith Wergeland -- 12. Towards a politics of mobility / Tim Cresswell -- 13. Curating views : the Norwegian Tourist Route Project / Janike Kampevold Larsen -- 14. Stop, rest and digest : feeding people into nature / Lars Frers -- 15. Roadside aesthetics : guidelines from the Norwegian Public Roads Administration / Beate Elvebalck -- 16. Enfolding and gathering the landscape : a geography of England's M1 corridor / Peter Merriman-- 17. Landscapes on the road / Gernot Böhme ; translated by Peter Cripps.

Summary:

'Routes and roads make their way into and across the landscape, defining it as landscape and making it accessible for many kinds of uses and perceptions. Bringing together outstanding scholars from cultural history, geography, philosophy, and a host of other disciplines, this collection examines the complex entanglement between routes and landscapes. It traces the changing conceptions of the landscape from the enlightenment to the present day, looking at how movement has been facilitated, imagined and represented and how such movement in turn has conditioned understandings of the landscape. A particular focus is on the modern transportation landscape as it came into being with the canal, the railway, and the automobile. These modes of transport have had a profound impact on the perception and conceptualization of the modern landscape, a relationship investigated in detail by authors such as Gernot Bohme, Sarah Bonnemaison, Tim Cresswell, Finola O'Kane, Charlotte Klonk, Peter Merriman, Christine Macy, David Nye, Vittoria Di Palma, Charles Withers, and Thomas Zeller'--on Back Cover.

ISBN:

9781409408208 (hardback ; alk. paper)
1409408205 (hardback ; alk. paper)
9781409408215 (ebook)
1409408213 (ebook)
9781138246140
113824614X

Subject:

Landscape assessment.
Geographical perception.
Roads.
Scenic byways.
Automobile travel.
Parkways.
Paysages Évaluation.
Perception géographique.
Routes.
Routes touristiques.
Voyages en automobile.
roads.
highways.
scenic byways.
parkways.
Wegebau
Straßenbau
Landschaftsgestaltung
Landschaftsarchitektur
Transport
Verkehr
Straße.
Reiseweg.
Landschaftsbewertung.
Umweltwahrnehmung.

Added entries:

Hvattum, Mari, 1966-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 275927
Call No.: BIB 210423
Status: Available