Exploring Everyday Landscapes

Author : Annmarie Adams
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9780870499838
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exploring Everyday Landscapes written by Annmarie Adams and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Drawn from two conferences of the Vernacular Architecture Forum--one held in Charleston in 1994, and the other in Ottawa in 1995"--Back cover.

Author : Gabrielle M. Lanier
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801853258
Total Pages : 1278 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Everyday Architecture of the Mid-Atlantic written by Gabrielle M. Lanier and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1997-07-15 with total page 1278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyday Architecture of the Mid-Atlantic gives proof to the insights architecture offers into who we are culturally as a community, a region, and a nation.

Author : Paul Groth
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300072037
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Ordinary Landscapes written by Paul Groth and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does knowledge of everyday environments foster deeper understanding of both past and present cultural life? Traditional studies in this field have been of rural life. Here, contributors explore aspects of the emergent field of urban cultural landscape studies--with the challenging issues of class, race, ethnicity, and subculture--to demonstrate the value of investigating the many meanings of ordinary settings. 67 illustrations.

Author : Camilla Casonato
Publisher : LetteraVentidue Edizioni
ISBN 13 : 8862427948
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Discovering the everyday landscape written by Camilla Casonato and published by LetteraVentidue Edizioni. This book was released on 2022-10-14 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heritage and landscape education is crucial to training young people in active and responsible citizenship, protection of the public assets, appreciation of the cultural diversity and intergenerational dialogue. Therefore, it cannot be limited to sporadic experiences and on outstanding heritage and contexts but must be transdisciplinary, inclusive and practicable everywhere. This book relates the research and action project “Scuola Attiva Risorse” (ScAR), winner of the Polisocial Award that recognizes research for social purposes at the Politecnico di Milano. The text describes an experimental and innovative action delivered within the fragile context of the urban peripheries. This participatory process involved schools, universities, cultural institutions, administrations and private actors in interpreting and enhancing the “hidden” cultural heritage in Milan’s fringe neighbourhoods.

Author : John Brinckerhoff Jackson
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300035810
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Discovering the Vernacular Landscape written by John Brinckerhoff Jackson and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneer in landscape studies takes us on a tour of landscapes past and present to show how our surroundings reflect our culture. "No one who cares deeply about landscape issues can overlook the scores of brilliant insights and challenges to the mind, eye and conscience contained in Discovering the Vernacular Landscape. It is a book to be deeply cherished and to be read and pondered many times."--Wilbur Zelinsky, Landscape "While it is fashionable to speak of man as alienated from his environment, Mr. Jackson shows us all the ties that bind us to it, consciously or unconsciously. He teaches us to speak intelligently--rather than polemically or wistfully--of the sense of place."--Anatole Broyard, New York Times "This book is a vital and seminal text: do beg, borrow or buy it."--Robert Holden, Landscape Design (London) "Incisive and overpoweringly influential. It will probably tell you something about how you live that you've never thought about."--Thomas Hine, The Philadelphia Inquirer "No one can come close to Jackson in his unique combination of historical scholarship and field experience, in his deep knowledge of European high culture as well as of American trailer parks, in his archivist's nose for the unusual fact and his philosopher's mind for the trenchant, surprising question."--Yi-Fu Tuan

Author : Alex Stewart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781366300225
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Everyday Landscapes written by Alex Stewart and published by . This book was released on 2014-04-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyday Landscapes is a piece of work exploring the beauty of every day life, the things we see on a day to day basis. The more we become accustomed to our environment, the more we take for granted what is actually around us. With influences ranging from The New Topographics to Joel Meyorwitz and William Eggleston, Everyday Landscapes examines the relationship between the industrial town environment and the ever presence of nature. The book shows a journey through the town in which I have lived the last three years of my life, showing the areas that are walked by without a second glance on a daily basis, it is just stopping, and taking in the beauty of what is around us.

Author : Annemaree Lloyd
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 1780630298
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Information Literacy Landscapes written by Annemaree Lloyd and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2010-02-19 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon the author’s on going research into information literacy, Information Literacy Landscapes explores the nature of the phenomenon from a socio-cultural perspective, which offers a more holistic approach to understanding information literacy as a catalyst for learning. This perspective emphasizes the dynamic relationship between learner and environment in the construction of knowledge. The approach underlines the importance of contextuality, through which social, cultural and embodied factors influence formal and informal learning. This book contributes to the understanding of information literacy and its role in formal and informal contexts. Explores the shape of information literacy within education and workplace contexts Introduces a holistic definition of information literacy which has been drawn from empirical studies in the workplace Introduces a range of sensitizing concepts for researchers and practitioners

Author : Jane Hutton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317569059
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reciprocal Landscapes written by Jane Hutton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-06 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How are the far-away, invisible landscapes where materials come from related to the highly visible, urban landscapes where those same materials are installed? Reciprocal Landscapes: Stories of Material Movements traces five everyday landscape construction materials – fertilizer, stone, steel, trees, and wood – from seminal public landscapes in New York City, back to where they came from. Drawing from archival documents, photographs, and field trips, the author brings these two separate landscapes – the material’s source and the urban site where the material ended up – together, exploring themes of unequal ecological exchange, labor, and material flows. Each chapter follows a single material’s movement: guano from Peru that landed in Central Park in the 1860s, granite from Maine that paved Broadway in the 1890s, structural steel from Pittsburgh that restructured Riverside Park in the 1930s, London plane street trees grown on Rikers Island by incarcerated workers that were planted on Seventh Avenue north of Central Park in the 1950s, and the popular tropical hardwood, ipe, from northern Brazil installed in the High Line in the 2000s. Reciprocal Landscapes: Stories of Material Movements considers the social, political, and ecological entanglements of material practice, challenging readers to think of materials not as inert products but as continuous with land and the people that shape them, and to reimagine forms of construction in solidarity with people, other species, and landscapes elsewhere.

Author : R. A. Preece
Publisher : *Belhaven Press
ISBN 13 : 9780471947523
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Designs on the Landscape written by R. A. Preece and published by *Belhaven Press. This book was released on 1993-11-26 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the principles of landscape design, combining the theory of landscape aesthetics with the practice of good architectural design. Considers why certain environments may be valued; analyzes historical designs focusing on their relevance to contemporary design of the principles discussed. Outlines the philosophical problems of dealing with subjectivity and the difficulties of evaluating incremental change. Recognizes that visual and cultural aspects are intimately related to technical and functional matters and accordingly sets out to treat these as parts of the whole. Most chapters include brief case studies based on everyday surroundings.

Author : Mauro Agnoletti
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031257138
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultivating Continuity of the European Landscape written by Mauro Agnoletti and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: