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Author Rotenberg, Robert Louis, 1949- author.

Title Landscape and power in Vienna / Robert Rotenberg
Published Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1995]
©1995

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 385 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Introduction: The Cultural Meaning of Landscape -- 1. The Making of the Viennese Landscape -- 2. Gardens of Order -- 3. Gardens of Liberty -- 4. Gardens of Domesticity -- 5. Gardens of Pleasure -- 6. Gardens of Reform -- 7. Gardens of Reaction -- 8. Gardens of Refuge -- 9. Gardens of Renewal -- 10. Gardens of Discovery -- Conclusion: Landscape and Metropolitan Knowledge
Summary "Each group that has held political power in Vienna over the past three centuries has left its mark on the city's history, institutions, and architecture. In Landscape and Power in Vienna, Robert Rotenberg shows how such groups - monarchists and republicans, fascists and socialists - also influenced another, equally vital aspect of urban identity in this central European metropolis: the landscape. Working as both a historian and an ethnographer, Rotenberg examines the relationships among human experience, landscape design, and the ideas that design was meant to represent. Understanding this relationship, Rotenberg explains, makes it possible to examine a Viennese garden today and deduce the ideology of those who planted it." "From "Gardens of Order" and "Gardens of Liberty" to "Gardens of Reaction" and "Gardens of Renewal," the chapters of Landscape and Power in Vienna show how ideas leaders and citizens shared about landscape emerged in the kinds of gardens they produced. "Landscape itself is a language," Rotenberg concludes. "People learn the meanings of landscape in a city from the landscape itself.""--Jacket
Analysis Landscape design Related to Politics
Vienna (Austria)
Notes "Published in cooperation with the Center for American Places, Harrisonburg, Virginia"--Title page verso
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-376) and index
Credits Design: Christine Taylor
Composition: Wilsted & Taylor Publishing Services
Notes All rights reserved. Published 1995
Print version record
Subject Landscape gardening -- Austria -- Vienna
Gardens -- Austria -- Vienna -- Design
Landscape architecture.
Gardens -- Austria -- Vienna -- Design
landscape gardening.
landscape architecture (discipline)
Landscape architecture
Gardens -- Design
Landscape gardening
Tuinen.
Parken.
Sociale klassen.
Landscape gardening -- Austria -- Vienna.
Gardens -- Austria -- Vienna.
Jardins -- Histoire -- Autriche -- Vienne (Autriche)
Paysage -- Histoire -- Autriche -- Vienne (Autriche)
Architecture du paysage -- Autriche -- Vienne (Autriche)
Architecture des jardins -- Autriche -- Vienne (Autriche)
Austria -- Vienna
Form Electronic book
LC no. 94042624