{"product_id":"landscapes-in-the-making-9780884025214","title":"Landscapes in the Making","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHow are landscapes created? \u003cem\u003eLandscapes in the Making\u003c\/em\u003e goes beyond professional design and planning to examine the social range of knowledge, technique, and imagination in the making and meaning of landscapes—from the work of quarrying and construction to that of cultivation, maintenance, stewardship, salvage, reclamation, ritual, and remembrance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDeploying an array of documentary, visual, and field sources, this volume brings to life the agency and skill of diverse and often disregarded peoples, in a range of periods and places, working in often demanding, precarious, and coercive conditions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eChapters focus on the physical and social worlds of trash dumps, gravel pits, and abandoned canneries as well as on construction sites for churches, palaces, parks, gardens, and government buildings. In addition to addressing local place-making, the volume surveys wider regional and international geographies of movement, both of people and materials.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe landscapes described are far from finished—they are provisional and always in the making.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47603009650924,"sku":"9780884025214","price":150.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780884025214-landscapes-in-the-making.jpg?v=1778052871","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/landscapes-in-the-making-9780884025214","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}