Landscape Biographies : Geographical, Historical and Archaeological Perspectives on the Production and Transmission of Landscapes.

Cover -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Hayden Lorimer -- 1. Landscape Biographies: Key Issues -- Jan Kolen &amp -- Johannes Renes -- Introduction -- Biographical Approaches of Landscape: A Short History -- Landscapes as Life Worlds -- Key Issues and Topics of this Volume -- Issue 1 - Who (or what) are the authors of the landscape? -- Issue 2 - Are landscapes 'socialized nature'? -- Issue 3 - How does the temporal dimension of landscapes take 'shape' in rhythms, layers and memories? -- Issue 4 - How can planning and design contribute to the landscape's life history? -- The Structure of the Book -- 2. The Marsh of Modernity -- Edward H. Huijbens &amp -- Gisli Palsson -- Introduction -- Nature as We Know It -- Mapping the Marsh -- 'Sweet is the Swamp' -- In the Bog -- Grand Engineering -- The Scenic and the Unscenic -- To Conclude -- 3. Biographies of Biotopes -- Jan Kolen -- Introduction: Biotopes -- From the Primordial Landscape to Socialized Nature -- Fens and Birds -- The 'Co-Scripting' of Biotopes -- From Dikes and Dams to Disasters -- Conclusion -- 4. Automobile Authorship of Landscapes -- Edward Huijbens &amp -- Karl Benediktsson -- Introduction -- Engaging with the Highlands -- Establishing Authorship -- Machines and Morality -- Conservation, Authority and Authorship -- Concluding Remarks -- 5. Authenticity, Artifice and the Druidical Temple of Avebury -- Mark Gillings &amp -- Joshua Pollard -- Writing a Biography -- A Search for the Authentic Avebury -- Stukeley Records a Temple -- Keiller Builds One -- Purity of Vision -- What is Avebury? -- Worshipping at the Temple -- Ancestral Values -- Authenticity, Artifice and Avebury -- Postscript: Time for a New Avebury to Emerge? -- 6. Places That Matter -- Ludvig Papmehl-Dufay -- Introduction -- The Importance of Places -- Landscape Biographies in Archaeology.

Biographies of Megalithic Monuments -- Öland Today and in the Neolithic -- The Mysinge Passage Graves -- Conclusion: Places That Matter -- Epilogue: The Meaning of Archaeology -- 7. What Future for the Life-History Approach to Prehistoric Monuments in the Landscape? -- Cornelius Holtorf -- The Unbelievable Mess of the Past -- The Problem of Identity -- Conclusion: From Monuments to Landscapes -- 8. 'To Preserve the Terrain in its Present State' -- Michiel Purmer -- Introduction -- The Eerder Achterbroek Project in the Context of Dutch Landscape Research -- Eerde and the Eerder Achterbroek -- Research Method -- Landscape Characteristics and Landscape Change -- The Baron and His Landscape -- The Authors of the Eerder Achterbroek -- Conclusions -- 9. The Quiet Authors of an Early Modern Palatial Landscape -- Hanneke Ronnes -- Introduction -- The Early Palace -- Quiet Times -- Legacy -- Aged Abode -- State Matters and Distractions -- Conclusion -- 10. Piet Mondrian's Victory Boogie Woogie, 1942-44 -- Jürgen Stoye -- Introduction -- The Biography of the Landscape -- Marwyn Samuels -- Michel de Certeau -- Victory Boogie Woogie -- Mondrian -- Changes -- Mondrian in New York -- The Rhythm of New York -- Victory Boogie Woogie as Authored Landscape -- 11. Shanghai: The Biography of a City -- David Koren -- Introduction -- Landscape Biography and the City -- The Early Colonial City: Shanghai in the 19th Century (1842-1899) -- Landscape of Impression -- Landscape of Expression -- Representation in Popular Culture -- Part of the World System: The Heydays (1900-1949) -- Landscape of Impression -- Landscape of Expression -- Shanghai in Popular Culture -- Off the Radar: The Dark Years of Communism (1949-1989) -- Landscape of Impression -- Landscape of Expression -- Shanghai in Popular Culture -- 'In the Picture' Again: The Metropolis Awakens (1990-Present).

Landscape of Impression -- Landscape of Expression -- Shanghai in the Media -- Conclusion -- 12. A Kaleidoscopic Biography of an Ordinary Landscape -- John de Jong -- Introduction -- Landscape Dynamics and Spatial Order -- Continuity of a Spatial Order -- Transition and Transformation -- The Process of Landscape Development -- Framed Spatial Practices -- Spatial Development as Private Venture -- Socio-Politically-Based Development -- Landscape for the Use of Leisure -- Iconography of the Landscape: A Dynamic Picture -- Boulevard of Social Standing and Power -- Progress and Nostalgia -- The Ordinariness of Landscape and the Importance of Everyday Practices -- Conclusion -- 13. The Cultural Biography of a Street -- Wim Hupperetz -- Introduction -- Historical Research Traditions -- The Historical City Centre as Playground for City Planners -- Bricks and People -- Housing Culture, Parcels, Building Blocks and the Body of Houses -- Structure -- Historical Notion -- Dynamic Cultural Heritage -- Tradition and Renewal -- Recommendations -- 14. Post-Industrial Coal-Mining Landscapes and the Evolution of Mining Memory -- Felix van Veldhoven -- Introduction -- Remembering and Forgetting in the Landscape -- The Post-Industrial Mining Landscape of Dutch and Belgian Limburg -- Dutch Limburg -- Belgian Limburg -- The Post-Industrial Mining Landscape -- The Changing Will to Forget -- Conclusion -- 15. Fatal Attraction -- Rob van der Laarse -- Unwanted Memory -- Purity and Modernity -- Making Heimatscapes -- Hidden Continuities: From Camps to Memorial Spaces -- Through the Eyes of the Perpetrators? -- 16. A Biography for an Emerging Urban District -- Svava Riesto -- Introduction -- The Carlsberg Site - Seen and Overlooked -- Overlooked Spaces -- Landscape Biography for Urban Redevelopment Sites -- Carlsberg: An Unexpected Turn -- Design Survey I - Topography.

Landscape Biography of a Hill -- Design Survey II - Transportation Equipment -- Landscape Biography of a Route -- Unravelling Surveys of Carlsberg -- Prospects for Future Landscape Biography -- 17. Layered Landscapes -- Johannes Renes -- Introduction -- Rome -- The Dutch Rural Landscape -- Landscape Layers in Planning -- Conclusion -- 18. Biographies of Landscape: Rebala Heritage Reserve, Estonia -- Helen Sooväli-Sepping -- Theoretical Starting Points -- Methodological Considerations -- Nationalization of the Past: Biography of the Rebala Landscape -- Protection: For Whom and Why? -- Whose Heritage? -- Discussion -- List of Figures -- Figure 1.1 : Het Kolkje and the Oudezijds Achterburgwal in Amsterdam by George Hendrik Breitner, 1894-1898 -- Figure 2.1 : The grand engineering scheme of Southwest Iceland -- Figure 2.2 : From the Flói irrigation system -- Figure 2.3 : Canoeing in the "Dælur" of Stokkseyri -- Figure 3.1 : Archetypal representation of the linear development of a cultural landscape out of and upon the primordial natural landscape -- Figure 3.2 : Map of the historical village areas of Someren and Asten (Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands) around 1900 with fens with bird names -- Figure 3.3 : Cranes (background) return to a fen in the Groote Peel in 2011 -- Figure 3.4 : Two boys herding cattle on a wet heathland near Eisden (Limburg, The Netherlands), c. 1900 -- Figure 3.5 : Jan Willem Koch's "habitat": meadows at the Loowaard with the havezate -- Figure 3.6 : Typical Dutch river landscape around 1950 with meadows (uiterwaarden), closed dikes and brick factories (background) -- Figure 4.1 : The Icelandic road system in 1936 -- Figure 4.2 : Roads and tracks in the interior of Iceland at present -- Figure 4.3 : Prepared for war? Austrian ex-army truck in the Icelandic landscape.

Figure 4.4 : The funeral of the freedom to travel at the Pass of Hope -- Figure 5.1 : Avebury today -- Figure 5.2 : The impact of stone removals on the main circles of the monument -- Figure 5.3 : Stukeley's frontispiece to Abury (1743) -- Figure 5.4 : Keiller's engineering project -- Figure 5.5 : The 20th-century social cleansing of Avebury -- Figure 5.6 : Stukeley's Dracontia in all its sinuous symmetry -- Figure 5.7 : A clash of aesthetics - the north-west sector of Avebury -- Figure 5.8 : Keiller's carefully re-erected obelisks and stones -- Figure 5.9 : The Avebury Cove (the 4.9-metre-high Stone I is in the foreground) -- Figure 5.10 : Engineering verticality (Stone I) -- Figure 6.1 : The biography of our house revealing itself -- Figure 6.2 : A monument with multiple meanings -- Figure 6.3 : The island of Öland, with the Neolithic coastline (dark grey area = land in the Neolithic) and the Resmo area (black dot) indicated -- Figure 6.4 : The passage grave at Mysinge as it appears today -- Figure 7.1 : A prehistoric monument - cargo from the past imported to a present landscape -- Figure 7.2 : An unbelievable mess of many pasts in, at, on, and around the megalith of Monte da Igreja, Évora, Portugal -- Figure 7.3 : A single monument or several? Metamorphosis from prehistoric menhir to Christian religious site to tourist attraction -- Figure 7.4 : An outstanding monument of the 20th century -- Figures 8.1a-b : Two oaks, photographed in 1949 and again in 2009 -- Figure 8.2 : The Eerder Achterbroek, 2008 -- Figure 8.3 : Eerde Manor, 2008 -- Figures 8.4a-b : Topographical maps, showing the Eerder Achterbroek around 1900 and a century later -- Figure 8.5 : A row of oaks in the Eerder Achterbroek, 2010 -- Figure 8.6 : Brochure, titled: "Our future property", 1949.

Figure 8.7 : Oral history: interview with former tenants Seine Nevenzel and Jan Zandman of the Eerde estate, 2007.

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