Landscape Biographies: Geographical, Historical and Archaeological Perspectives on the Production and Transmission of Landscapes (Landscape and Heritage Studies)

__Landscape Biographies__ explores the long, complex histories of landscapes from personal and social perspectives. Twenty geographers, archaeologists, historians, and anthropologists investigate the diverse ways in which landscapes and monuments have been constructed, transmitted, and transformed from prehistory to the present, from Manhattan to Shanghai, Iceland to Portugal, England to Estonia. Explores The Long And Complex Histories Of Landscapes From Personal, Social And Cultural Perspectives. Preface / Hayden Lorimer. 1. Landscape Biographies, Key Issues / Jan Kolen And Johannes Renes: Introduction -- Biographical Approaches Of Landscape, A Short History -- Landscapes As Life Worlds -- Key Issues And Topics Of This Volume -- The Structure Of This Book. 2. The Marsh Of Modernity / Edward H. Huijbens And 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 And 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 And 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 Hist 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) -- Part Of The World System, The Heydays (1900-1949) -- Off The Radar, The Dark Years Of Communism (1949-1989) -- 'in The Picture' Again, The Metropolis Awakens (1990-present) -- 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 -- 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. Edited By Jan Kolen, Johannes Renes And Rita Hermans. Includes Bibliographical References. Landscape Biographies explores the long and complex histories of landscapes from personal and social perspectives. As an essential part of human life-worlds, landscapes have the potential to absorb something of people's lives, works, and thoughts. But landscapes also shape their own life-histories at different timescales, transcending human life-cycles and generating their own temporalities and rhythms. It comes as no surprise, therefore, that the co-scripting of landscapes and people figures prominently in the (auto-)biographical works of writers and attracts the interest of geographers, archaeologists, historians, and anthropologists. This has even resulted in a new genre in landscape research, rapidly gaining in popularity, under the heading of'landscape biography'. In Landscape Biographies, twenty geographers, archaeologists, historians, and anthropologists investigate the diverse ways in which landscapes and monuments have been constructed, transmitted, and transformed from prehistory up to the present, from Manhattan to Shanghai, from Iceland to Portugal, and from England to Estonia. Among the authors are distinguished scholars like Gísli Pálsson, Cornelius Holtorf, Joshua Pollard, and Mark Gillings.'this rich book offers a way of creating fresh and engaging narratives of our landscapes'- Graham Fairclough, Bulletin KNOB Landscape Biographies explores the long and complex histories of landscapes from personal and social perspectives. As an essential part of human life-worlds, landscapes have the potential to absorb something of people's lives, works, and thoughts. But landscapes also shape their own life-histories at different timescales, transcending human life-cycles and generating their own temporalities and rhythms. It comes as no surprise, therefore, that the co-scripting of landscapes and people figures prominently in the (auto-)biographical works of writers and attracts the interest of geographers, archaeologists, historians, and anthropologists. This has even resulted in a new genre in landscape research, rapidly gaining in popularity, under the heading of 'landscape biography'. In Landscape Biographies , twenty geographers, archaeologists, historians, and anthropologists investigate the diverse ways in which landscapes and monuments have been constructed, transmitted, and transformed from prehistory up to the present, from Manhattan to Shanghai, from Iceland to Portugal, and from England to Estonia. Among the authors are distinguished scholars like Gsli Plsson, Cornelius Holtorf, Joshua Pollard, and Mark Gillings.