Landscape Narratives - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Landscape Narratives write by Matthew Potteiger. This book was released on 1998-03-20. Landscape Narratives available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This text covers the most popular types of landscapes designed today, from garden and park design, historic preservation and restoration, to community and regional planning.
Landscape Stories
Landscape Stories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Landscape Stories write by Jem Southam. This book was released on 2005-08-25. Landscape Stories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'Landscape Stories' offers a selection from the works of photographer Jem Southam. Each series of pictures describes the subtle changes in the landscape of the English West Country that he has witnessed over years of close observation, concentrating on water features.
Reciprocal Landscapes
Reciprocal Landscapes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reciprocal Landscapes write by Jane Hutton. This book was released on 2019-09-06. Reciprocal Landscapes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How are the far-away, invisible landscapes where materials come from related to the highly visible, urban landscapes where those same materials are installed? Reciprocal Landscapes: Stories of Material Movements traces five everyday landscape construction materials – fertilizer, stone, steel, trees, and wood – from seminal public landscapes in New York City, back to where they came from. Drawing from archival documents, photographs, and field trips, the author brings these two separate landscapes – the material’s source and the urban site where the material ended up – together, exploring themes of unequal ecological exchange, labor, and material flows. Each chapter follows a single material’s movement: guano from Peru that landed in Central Park in the 1860s, granite from Maine that paved Broadway in the 1890s, structural steel from Pittsburgh that restructured Riverside Park in the 1930s, London plane street trees grown on Rikers Island by incarcerated workers that were planted on Seventh Avenue north of Central Park in the 1950s, and the popular tropical hardwood, ipe, from northern Brazil installed in the High Line in the 2000s. Reciprocal Landscapes: Stories of Material Movements considers the social, political, and ecological entanglements of material practice, challenging readers to think of materials not as inert products but as continuous with land and the people that shape them, and to reimagine forms of construction in solidarity with people, other species, and landscapes elsewhere.
Landscapes Beyond Land
Landscapes Beyond Land - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Landscapes Beyond Land write by Arnar Árnason. This book was released on 2012-09-15. Landscapes Beyond Land available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Land is embedded in a multitude of material and cultural contexts, through which the human experience of landscape emerges. Ethnographers, with their participative methodologies, long-term co-residence, and concern with the quotidian aspects of the places where they work, are well positioned to describe landscapes in this fullest of senses. The contributors explore how landscapes become known primarily through movement and journeying rather than stasis. Working across four continents, they explain how landscapes are constituted and recollected in the stories people tell of their journeys through them, and how, in turn, these stories are embedded in landscaped forms.
Mapping the Invisible Landscape
Mapping the Invisible Landscape - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mapping the Invisible Landscape write by Kent C. Ryden. This book was released on 1993. Mapping the Invisible Landscape available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Any landscape has an unseen component: a subjective component of experience, memory, and narrative which people familiar with the place understand to be an integral part of its geography but which outsiders may not suspect the existence ofOCounless they listen and read carefully. This invisible landscape is make visible though stories, and these stories are the focus of this engrossing book. Traveling across the invisible landscape in which we imaginatively dwell, Kent RydenOCohimself a most careful listener and readerOCoasks the following questions. What categories of meaning do we read into our surroundings? What forms of expression serve as the most reliable maps to understanding those meanings? Our sense of any place, he argues, consists of a deeply ingrained experiential knowledge of its physical makeup; an awareness of its communal and personal history; a sense of our identity as being inextricably bound up with its events and ways of life; and an emotional reaction, positive or negative, to its meanings and memories. Ryden demonstrates that both folk and literary narratives about place bear a striking thematic and stylistic resemblance. Accordingly, "Mapping the Invisible Landscape" examines both kinds of narratives. For his oral materials, Ryden provides an in-depth analysis of narratives collected in the Coeur d'Alene mining district in the Idaho panhandle; for his consideration of written works, he explores the OC essay of place, OCO the personal essay which takes as its subject a particular place and a writer's relationship to that place. Drawing on methods and materials from geography, folklore, and literature, "Mapping the Invisible Landscape" offers a broadly interdisciplinary analysis of the way we situate ourselves imaginatively in the landscape, the way we inscribe its surface with stories. Written in an extremely engaging style, this book will lead its readers to an awareness of the vital role that a sense of place plays in the formation of local cultures, to an understanding of the many-layered ways in which place interacts with individual lives, and to renewed appreciation of the places in their own lives and landscapes."
