Landscape and Agency

Name: Landscape and Agency
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9781138125568
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Landscape and Agency examines how landscapes are conceived, visualised and shaped, revealing their role in transforming places on both local and global scales. The book delves into the evolving concept of agency within landscape theory and practice, showing how this shift impacts our interaction with future environments. Featuring diverse international perspectives, each chapter, richly illustrated, explores the dynamic relationship between landscape ideas and practices and the social, subjective and material forces that imbue them with agency. It also considers landscape's influence in urban development, environmental debates and political contexts through a dialogue linking theory and practice.
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This book is suited to students, academics and professionals interested in landscape architecture, urban planning, environmental studies and cultural theory, offering critical insights into contemporary landscape issues.

This book explores how landscape, as an idea, a visual medium and a design practice, is organized, appropriated and framed in the transformation of global cities and environments.

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Landscape and Agency explores how landscape, as an idea, a visual medium, and a design practice, is organised, 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.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781138125568

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 17 October 2017

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 24 Line drawings, black and white; 35 Halftones, black and white; 59 Illustrations, black and white

Contributors:

Edited by Ed Wall
Edited by Tim Waterman

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 544g

Pages: 198

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About the Author

Ed Wall is the Academic Leader Landscape at the University of Greenwich, London, Visiting Professor at Politecnico di Milano (DiAP) and City of Vienna Visiting Professor 2017 (SKuOR) for urban culture, public space and the future – urban equity and the global agenda. Ed’s research focuses on the design and theory of landscapes, public spaces and cities. He is the founding editor of the design research journal Testing-Ground (2015). In 2007 Ed established Project Studio. Award-winning projects have been published and exhibited widely, including at the Architecture Foundation, Royal Academy, Biennale of Landscape Urbanism, London Festival of Architecture and the Van Alen Institute.

Tim Waterman is senior lecturer and landscape architecture theory coordinator at the University of Greenwich, and a tutor at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. He writes for a wide range of professional and academic publications on the subjects of power, democracy, taste, foodways and everyday life.