Landscape Is...! - Essays on the Meaning of Landscape

This companion volume to Is Landscape...? examines the implicit biases and received meanings of landscape. It features contributions from leading voices who challenge the contemporary understandings of the field in relation to capital and class, race and gender, power and politics, and more.

List of contents

00. Foreword: Landscape Is History 0. Introduction 1. Is Landscape Fieldwork? 2. Is Landscape Capital? 3. Is Landscape Colonial? 4. Is Landscape Empowerment? 5. Is Landscape Gendered? 6. Is Landscape Imperial? 7. Is Landscape Indigenous? 8. Is Landscape Elitist? 9. Is Landscape Just? 10. Is Landscape Labor? 11. Is Landscape Public? 12. Is Landscape Queer? 13. Is Landscape Collaborative? 14. Is Landscape Reconciliation? 15. Is Landscape Insurgency? 16. Is Landscape Haunted? 17. Is Landscape Language? 18. Is Landscape Human?

About the author

Gareth Doherty is an Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture and Affiliate Faculty in the Department of African and African American Studies at Harvard University.
Charles Waldheim is the John E. Irving Professor of Landscape Architecture and the Director of the Office for Urbanization at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

Summary

This companion volume to Is Landscape...? examines the implicit biases and received meanings of landscape. It features contributions from leading voices who challenge the contemporary understandings of the field in relation to capital and class, race and gender, power and politics, and more.

Product details

• Authors: Gareth Waldheim Doherty
• Assisted by: Gareth Doherty (Editor), Doherty Gareth (Editor), Charles Waldheim (Editor), Waldheim Charles (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.02.2025
• EAN: 9780367708214
• ISBN: 978-0-367-70821-4
• No. of pages: 331
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Landscape art & architecture, ARCHITECTURE / Landscape, ARCHITECTURE / Criticism, ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning, ARCHITECTURE / Sustainability & Green Design, Interdisciplinary studies, Civil engineering, surveying & building, Urban communities, Landscape architecture and design, Civil engineering, surveying and building