| Description |
ix, 283 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: 1.New cultural landscapes: emerging issues, context and themes / Ken Taylor -- 2.Culture-nature dilemmas: confronting the challenge of the integration of culture and nature / Keven Francis -- 3.Old culture and damaged landscapes: the new cultural landscapes of post-industrial sites in Britain / Clive Davies -- 4.Envisioning new cultural landscapes: agricultural traditions and adaptation / Brenda Barrett -- 5.Cultures in flux / Simon Bell -- 6.The commercial and dream landscape cultures of films / Susan McKinnon -- 7.Communities, heritage and new cultural landscapes: ecomuseological approaches / Gerard Corsane -- 8.Desperation, delight or deviance: conflicting cultural landscapes of the urban poor in developing countries / Suzanne Speak -- 9.Landfill and disasterscapes in the wastelands of Indonesia / Joe Duffy -- 10.Altneuland: the old new land and the new-old twenty-first-century cultural landscape of Palestine and Israel / Shelley Egoz -- |
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Contents note continued: 11.New spatial cultures: a landscape story from Egypt / Tamer M. Abd El-Fattah Ahmed -- 12.China: new cultures and changing urban cultures / Mary G. Padua -- 13.Cultural landscapes and climate change: protecting resources that matter in a future of uncertainty / Robert Z. Melnick -- 14.Exploring future cultural landscapes / Maggie Roe |
| Summary |
While historical and protected landscapes have been well studied for years, the cultural significance of ordinary landscapes is now increasingly recognised. This book discusses how contemporary cultural landscapes can be, and are, created and recognised. The book challenges common concepts of cultural landscapes as protected or special landscapes that include significant buildings or features. Using case studies from around the world, it questions the usual measures of judgement related to cultural landscapes and instead focuses on landscapes that are created, planned or simply evolve as a result of changing human cultures, management policy and practice. Each contribution analyses the geographical and human background of the landscape, and policies and management strategies that impact upon it, and defines the meanings of cultural landscape in its particular context. Taken together they establish a new paradigm in the study of landscapes in all forms |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Landscapes -- Social aspects.
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Cultural property.
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Cultural landscapes.
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| Author |
Roe, Maggie H., editor of compilation
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Taylor, Ken, editor of compilation
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| LC no. |
2013019978 |
| ISBN |
9780415598064 (paperback) |
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9780415598057 (hardback) |
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