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Author |
: Karen Neale |
Publisher |
: Methuen Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 104 |
Release |
: 2006 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCSC:32106019161188 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis London in Landscape by : Karen Neale
This title captures the different faces of London in all seasons, from Bow Street to Chinatown, from Buckingham Palace to Smithfield Market, from the Tate Modern to Trafalgar Square.
Author |
: Christopher Tilley |
Publisher |
: UCL Press |
Total Pages |
: 458 |
Release |
: 2019-05-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781787355606 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1787355608 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Synopsis London’s Urban Landscape by : Christopher Tilley
London’s Urban Landscape is the first major study of a global city to adopt a materialist perspective and stress the significance of place and the built environment to the urban landscape. Edited by Christopher Tilley, the volume is inspired by phenomenological thinking and presents fine-grained ethnographies of the practices of everyday life in London. In doing so, it charts a unique perspective on the city that integrates ethnographies of daily life with an analysis of material culture. The first part of the volume considers the residential sphere of urban life, discussing in detailed case studies ordinary residential streets, housing estates, suburbia and London’s mobile ‘linear village’ of houseboats. The second part analyses the public sphere, including ethnographies of markets, a park, the social rhythms of a taxi rank, and graffiti and street art. London’s Urban Landscape returns us to the everyday lives of people and the manner in which they understand their lives. The deeply sensuous character of the embodied experience of the city is invoked in the thick descriptions of entangled relationships between people and places, and the paths of movement between them. What stories do door bells and house facades tell us about contemporary life in a Victorian terrace? How do antiques acquire value and significance in a market? How does living in a concrete megastructure relate to the lives of the people who dwell there? These and a host of other questions are addressed in this fascinating book that will appeal widely to all readers interested in London or contemporary urban life.
Author |
: Christopher Tilley |
Publisher |
: UCL Press |
Total Pages |
: 349 |
Release |
: 2017-02-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781911307433 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1911307436 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis Anthropology of Landscape by : Christopher Tilley
An Anthropology of Landscape tells the fascinating story of a heathland landscape in south-west England and the way different individuals and groups engage with it. Based on a long-term anthropological study, the book emphasises four individual themes: embodied identities, the landscape as a sensuous material form that is acted upon and in turn acts on people, the landscape as contested, and its relation to emotion. The landscape is discussed in relation to these themes as both ‘taskscape’ and ‘leisurescape’, and from the perspective of different user groups. First, those who manage the landscape and use it for work: conservationists, environmentalists, archaeologists, the Royal Marines, and quarrying interests. Second, those who use it in their leisure time: cyclists and horse riders, model aircraft flyers, walkers, people who fish there, and artists who are inspired by it. The book makes an innovative contribution to landscape studies and will appeal to all those interested in nature conservation, historic preservation, the politics of nature, the politics of identity, and an anthropology of Britain.
Author |
: Christopher Tilley |
Publisher |
: UCL Press |
Total Pages |
: 503 |
Release |
: 2017-10-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781787350830 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1787350835 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
Synopsis Landscape in the Longue Durée by : Christopher Tilley
Pebbles are usually found only on the beach, in the liminal space between land and sea. But what happens when pebbles extend inland and create a ridge brushing against the sky? Landscape in the Longue Durée is a 4,000 year history of pebbles. It is based on the results of a four-year archaeological research project of the east Devon Pebblebed heathlands, a fascinating and geologically unique landscape in the UK whose bedrock is composed entirely of water-rounded pebbles. Christopher Tilley uses this landscape to argue that pebbles are like no other kind of stone – they occupy an especial place both in the prehistoric past and in our contemporary culture. It is for this reason that we must re-think continuity and change in a radically new way by considering embodied relations between people and things over the long term. Dividing the book into two parts, Tilley first explores the prehistoric landscape from the Mesolithic to the end of the Iron Age, and follows with an analysis of the same landscape from the eighteenth into the twenty-first century. The major findings of the four-year study are revealed through this chronological journey: from archaeological discoveries, such as the excavation of three early Bronze Age cairns, to the documentation of all 829 surviving pebble structures, and beyond, to the impact of the landscape on local economies and its importance today as a military training camp. The results of the study will inform many disciplines including archaeology, cultural and art history, anthropology, conservation, and landscape studies.
Author |
: Vladimir Guculak |
Publisher |
: Jovis Verlag |
Total Pages |
: 317 |
Release |
: 2017-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 3868593969 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9783868593969 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis Landscape Observer by : Vladimir Guculak
This atlas of contemporary landscape architecture in London offers a comprehensive overview of new projects within public space. Over the past years, major investments in the infrastructure and housing market of London have driven the need for high-quality public spaces. In the course of this development, new public areas have been created, brownfields have been revitalised, and already-existing gardens and parklands have been upgraded. Landscape Observer: London illustrates these spaces with numerous photographs. Details of the hard and soft landscape elements are labelled to provide essential information on key materials and plants used in each individual project. The book therefore serves as a reference guide and source of inspiration for landscape architects and urban planners, as well as for garden designers and political activists in the field of infrastructure and urban planning. It invites readers to discover the environmental quality and the design diversity of the external public spaces in the metropolis. 700 colour images
Author |
: Nicholas Crane |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 384 |
Release |
: 2017-10-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0753826674 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780753826676 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Making of the British Landscape by : Nicholas Crane
Nicholas Crane's new book brilliantly describes the evolution of Britain's countryside and cities. It is part journey, part history, and it concludes with awkward questions about the future of Britain's landscapes. Nick Crane's story begins with the melting tongues of glaciers and the emergence of a gigantic game-park tentatively being explored by a vanguard of Mesolithic adventurers who have taken the long, northward hike across the land bridge from the continent. The Iron Age develops into a pre-Roman 'Golden Era' and Crane looks at what the Romans did (and didn't) contribute to the British landscape. Major landscape 'events' (Black Death, enclosures, urbanisation, recreation, etc.) are fully described and explored, and he weaves in the role played by geology in shaping our cities, industry and recreation, the effect of climate (and the Gulf Stream), and of global economics (the Lancashire valleys were formed by overseas markets). The co-presenter of BBC's COAST also covers the extraordinary benefits bestowed by a 6,000-mile coastline. The 12,000-year story of the British landscape culminates in the twenty-first century, which is set to be one of the most extreme centuries of change since the Ice Age.
Author |
: Barry England |
Publisher |
: Random House |
Total Pages |
: 187 |
Release |
: 2020-07-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781473573871 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1473573874 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis Figures in a Landscape by : Barry England
'Masterful and beautifully written. Riveting and compellingly authentic. Grips you like a vice from the first page and never lets you go' Damien Lewis Two men are on the run. They have four hundred miles to go across hostile territory. Soldiers on the ground track them day and night, a helicopter circles above, life becomes a second-by-second fight for survival. Each muscle movement, drop of sweat, glance and instinct matters. Every second counts. Through long slogs across country, risky raids for supplies, moments of sheer panic, and under the intense pressure to survive, an unbreakable bond between two men is forged. This stunningly written, adrenaline-pumping novel is a little-known classic of its genre. SHORTLISTED FOR THE FIRST EVER BOOKER PRIZE IN 1969 ‘England's prose has the tough, spare elegance of steel scaffolding... a brilliant achievement’ The Times
Author |
: John R. Stilgoe |
Publisher |
: MIT Press |
Total Pages |
: 281 |
Release |
: 2015-10-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780262029896 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0262029898 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (96 Downloads) |
Synopsis What Is Landscape? by : John R. Stilgoe
A lexicon and guide for discovering the essence of landscape.
Author |
: Nigel Everett |
Publisher |
: Paul Mellon Ctr for Studies |
Total Pages |
: 248 |
Release |
: 1994 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0300059043 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780300059045 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Tory View of Landscape by : Nigel Everett
In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, it seemed to many that England was being transformed by various kinds of 'improvements' in agriculture and industry, in gardening and the ornamentation of landscape. Such changes were understood to reflect matters of the greatest importance in the moral, social and political arrangements of the country. In the area of landscape design, to clear a wood, or plant one, to build a folly or a cottage, to design in the formal style or the picturesque, was to express a political orientation of one kind or another. To choose to employ Capability Brown, Humphry Repton or one of their lesser-known competitors, was to make a statement regarding the history of England, its constitutional organisation and the relationships that ought to exist between its citizens. Although many landowners may have been oblivious to this, there was a large body of critical opinion, poetry, theology and social discourse that offered to inform and correct them. In this illuminating and stimulating book, Nigel Everett reviews the entire debate, from about 1760 to 1820, emphasising in particular the attempts of various writers to defend a 'traditional' or tory view of the landscape against the aggressive, privatising tendency of improvement. Challenging the narrow implications of the existing schools of landscape historians - the 'establishment' historians, concerned primarily with currents of 'taste', who ignore the wider issues involved, and the commentators on the Left who have tended to see landscape politics as the politics of class - Everett reveals the history of English landscape as a political struggle between, on the one hand, the mechanical, universal and impersonal - whig - point of view and, on the other, the natural, Christian, particular and organic point of view. Everett depicts a lively, intelligent debate regarding the development of English society, as active among cultivated clergymen and landowners as among the theoreticians. Furthermore, analysing the languages of tory political thought, Everett engages in a dialogue between the present and the past, identifying in the detached, artificial and utilitarian attitudes of the whig 'improvers' the philosophical and historical origins of a dominant set of values of the late twentieth century - most recently expressed in the Conservative Party - in which the interests of private enterprise and commercial utility preponderate over any other conception of the public good. This important and passionate book makes an essential and original contribution to the study of eighteenth-century cultural history in Britain.
Author |
: W. G. Hoskins |
Publisher |
: Nature Classics Library |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2013 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1908213108 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781908213105 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Making of the English Landscape by : W. G. Hoskins
The classic text of English landscape history, ground-breaking and hugely influential.