Over the last decade interest in the landscapes of the mid-twentieth century has increased
significantly, with a continually growing number of publications and academic symposia …

This dissertation traces the recovery of the landscape idea during the middle decades of the
20 th century by a group of public intellectuals, scholars and designers responding to the …

Harrison Straker, Dean of the College of Environmental Design, opened the symposium by
suggesting that memory is a beacon for the future and provides “grist for the imagination,” …

It often seems that there is no longer a living landscape to consider but only an abstract
territorial space, which occasionally acquires the status of a panorama, to analyse …

Historically, a discussion of landscape has been confronted with, and constructed by, binary
oppositions: nature versus culture; urban versus countryside; science versus art; aversion …

The concept of 'fourth nature', intended as the nature of the city, will be developed through
an examination of the urban forest projects of two important experiences in modern …

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 …

In 1973, Robert Smithson wrote an article for Artforum magazine entitled “Frederick Law
Olmsted and the Dialectical Landscape,“honoring Olmsted with the distinction of being North …

The recent publication Emerging Landscapes: Between Representation and Production is
the result of a conference held at the University of Westminster's Faculty of Media, Art, and …