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Voisins animaux
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Tout au long de sa vie, Henry D. Thoreau a porté un vif intérêt pour le règne animal. Préférant la compagnie de ceux qu'il nomme ses "voisins", ses "co-habitants" voire ses "amis" à celle de ses concitoyens, il consacre un temps infini à leur observation sur le terrain. Abeille, lynx du Canada, moufette, petit-duc maculé, tortue... n'ont plus de secret pour le naturaliste(...)
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Tout au long de sa vie, Henry D. Thoreau a porté un vif intérêt pour le règne animal. Préférant la compagnie de ceux qu'il nomme ses "voisins", ses "co-habitants" voire ses "amis" à celle de ses concitoyens, il consacre un temps infini à leur observation sur le terrain. Abeille, lynx du Canada, moufette, petit-duc maculé, tortue... n'ont plus de secret pour le naturaliste(...)
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Tout au long de sa vie, Henry D. Thoreau a porté un vif intérêt pour le règne animal. Préférant la compagnie de ceux qu'il nomme ses "voisins", ses "co-habitants" voire ses "amis" à celle de ses concitoyens, il consacre un temps infini à leur observation sur le terrain. Abeille, lynx du Canada, moufette, petit-duc maculé, tortue... n'ont plus de secret pour le naturaliste amateur. L'ermite de Walden consigne ensuite avec précision des notes dans son Journal, nourries de réflexions et parfois d'humour, qui laissent entrevoir un autre mode de vie considérant pleinement la nature. Dans l'idée de présenter un panorama permettant d'appréhender l'animalité, Michel Granger a opéré une sélection qui souligne toute la richesse et la diversité de cette pensée profondément libre.
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Tout au long de sa vie, Henry D. Thoreau a porté un vif intérêt pour le règne animal. Préférant la compagnie de ceux qu'il nomme ses "voisins", ses "co-habitants" voire ses "amis" à celle de ses concitoyens, il consacre un temps infini à leur observation sur le terrain. Abeille, lynx du Canada, moufette, petit-duc maculé, tortue... n'ont plus de secret pour le naturaliste amateur. L'ermite de Walden consigne ensuite avec précision des notes dans son Journal, nourries de réflexions et parfois d'humour, qui laissent entrevoir un autre mode de vie considérant pleinement la nature. Dans l'idée de présenter un panorama permettant d'appréhender l'animalité, Michel Granger a opéré une sélection qui souligne toute la richesse et la diversité de cette pensée profondément libre.
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Landscape as protagonist
Landscape as protagonist
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A publication that attempts to challenge the property development industry’s current perspective on plants and landscapes in the built realm; where generally speaking, they are viewed as aesthetic objects used to beautify built spaces. Discussions, findings, interviews with Thomas Doxiadis, Marjetica Potrc and Dan Pearson and essays by Bruce Pascoe, Tanya Patrick,(...)
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A publication that attempts to challenge the property development industry’s current perspective on plants and landscapes in the built realm; where generally speaking, they are viewed as aesthetic objects used to beautify built spaces. Discussions, findings, interviews with Thomas Doxiadis, Marjetica Potrc and Dan Pearson and essays by Bruce Pascoe, Tanya Patrick,(...)
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Landscape as protagonist
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A publication that attempts to challenge the property development industry’s current perspective on plants and landscapes in the built realm; where generally speaking, they are viewed as aesthetic objects used to beautify built spaces. Discussions, findings, interviews with Thomas Doxiadis, Marjetica Potrc and Dan Pearson and essays by Bruce Pascoe, Tanya Patrick, Katherine Sundermann, Andrew Reynolds and Cameron Allan McKean. Illustrations by Al Stark. The publication content is informed by a symposium held as part of Melbourne Design Week 2019. It features findings, essays, interviews and original photography by Melbourne design studio U-P.
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A publication that attempts to challenge the property development industry’s current perspective on plants and landscapes in the built realm; where generally speaking, they are viewed as aesthetic objects used to beautify built spaces. Discussions, findings, interviews with Thomas Doxiadis, Marjetica Potrc and Dan Pearson and essays by Bruce Pascoe, Tanya Patrick, Katherine Sundermann, Andrew Reynolds and Cameron Allan McKean. Illustrations by Al Stark. The publication content is informed by a symposium held as part of Melbourne Design Week 2019. It features findings, essays, interviews and original photography by Melbourne design studio U-P.
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October 2020
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A world-leading expert shares her amazing story of discovering the communication that exists between trees, and shares her own story of family and grief. Now, in her first book, Suzanne Simard brings us into her world, the intimate world of the trees, in which she brilliantly illuminates the fascinating and vital truths—that trees are not simply the source of timber(...)
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A world-leading expert shares her amazing story of discovering the communication that exists between trees, and shares her own story of family and grief. Now, in her first book, Suzanne Simard brings us into her world, the intimate world of the trees, in which she brilliantly illuminates the fascinating and vital truths—that trees are not simply the source of timber(...)
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Finding the mother-tree: discovering the wisdom of the forest
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A world-leading expert shares her amazing story of discovering the communication that exists between trees, and shares her own story of family and grief. Now, in her first book, Suzanne Simard brings us into her world, the intimate world of the trees, in which she brilliantly illuminates the fascinating and vital truths—that trees are not simply the source of timber or pulp but are a complicated, interdependent circle of life; that forests are social, cooperative creatures connected through underground networks by which trees communicate their vitality and vulnerabilities with communal lives not that different from our own. Simard describes up close—in revealing and accessible ways—how trees, living side by side for hundreds of years, have evolved; how they perceive one another, learn and adapt their behaviors, recognize neighbors, and remember the past; how they have agency about their future; how they elicit warnings and mount defenses, compete and cooperate with one another with sophistication: characteristics previously ascribed to human intelligence, traits that are the essence of civil societies. And, at the center of it all, the Mother Trees: the mysterious, powerful forces that connect and sustain the others that surround them.Simard, born and raised in the rain forests of British Columbia, spent her days as a child cataloging the trees from the forest; she came to love and respect them and embarked on a journey of discovery and struggle. Her powerful story is one of love and loss, of observation and change, of risk and reward. And it is a testament to how deeply human scientific inquiry exists beyond data and technology: it’s about understanding who we are and our place in the world.
Finding the mother-tree: discovering the wisdom of the forest
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A world-leading expert shares her amazing story of discovering the communication that exists between trees, and shares her own story of family and grief. Now, in her first book, Suzanne Simard brings us into her world, the intimate world of the trees, in which she brilliantly illuminates the fascinating and vital truths—that trees are not simply the source of timber or pulp but are a complicated, interdependent circle of life; that forests are social, cooperative creatures connected through underground networks by which trees communicate their vitality and vulnerabilities with communal lives not that different from our own. Simard describes up close—in revealing and accessible ways—how trees, living side by side for hundreds of years, have evolved; how they perceive one another, learn and adapt their behaviors, recognize neighbors, and remember the past; how they have agency about their future; how they elicit warnings and mount defenses, compete and cooperate with one another with sophistication: characteristics previously ascribed to human intelligence, traits that are the essence of civil societies. And, at the center of it all, the Mother Trees: the mysterious, powerful forces that connect and sustain the others that surround them.Simard, born and raised in the rain forests of British Columbia, spent her days as a child cataloging the trees from the forest; she came to love and respect them and embarked on a journey of discovery and struggle. Her powerful story is one of love and loss, of observation and change, of risk and reward. And it is a testament to how deeply human scientific inquiry exists beyond data and technology: it’s about understanding who we are and our place in the world.
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May 2021
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Défini comme l’ensemble des relations sensibles que l’homme entretient avec son environnement naturel et urbain, c’est de paysage qu’il s’agit ici? ; de paysage comme espace, mais aussi comme au-delà de l’espace, à la fois révélateur et source de questionnements pour ceux qui l’observent et le vivent. Vaste panorama de l’histoire de la pensée du paysage, cet ouvrage offre(...)
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Défini comme l’ensemble des relations sensibles que l’homme entretient avec son environnement naturel et urbain, c’est de paysage qu’il s’agit ici? ; de paysage comme espace, mais aussi comme au-delà de l’espace, à la fois révélateur et source de questionnements pour ceux qui l’observent et le vivent. Vaste panorama de l’histoire de la pensée du paysage, cet ouvrage offre(...)
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Voir la terre : six essais sur le paysage et la géographie
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Défini comme l’ensemble des relations sensibles que l’homme entretient avec son environnement naturel et urbain, c’est de paysage qu’il s’agit ici? ; de paysage comme espace, mais aussi comme au-delà de l’espace, à la fois révélateur et source de questionnements pour ceux qui l’observent et le vivent. Vaste panorama de l’histoire de la pensée du paysage, cet ouvrage offre au lecteur six essais comme autant d’horizons à sa réflexion. Moral et spirituel d’abord, littéraire, esthétique, philosophique et scientifique encore. Scandé par l’analyse de quelques œuvres majeures, c’est finalement à l’expérience existentielle qu’il se consacre, au sein de laquelle les paysages relèvent irrévocablement de la nécessité et du besoin. Quand bien même le contexte de crise écologique nous enjoint aujourd’hui de nous [re]demander « pourquoi ».
Voir la terre : six essais sur le paysage et la géographie
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Défini comme l’ensemble des relations sensibles que l’homme entretient avec son environnement naturel et urbain, c’est de paysage qu’il s’agit ici? ; de paysage comme espace, mais aussi comme au-delà de l’espace, à la fois révélateur et source de questionnements pour ceux qui l’observent et le vivent. Vaste panorama de l’histoire de la pensée du paysage, cet ouvrage offre au lecteur six essais comme autant d’horizons à sa réflexion. Moral et spirituel d’abord, littéraire, esthétique, philosophique et scientifique encore. Scandé par l’analyse de quelques œuvres majeures, c’est finalement à l’expérience existentielle qu’il se consacre, au sein de laquelle les paysages relèvent irrévocablement de la nécessité et du besoin. Quand bien même le contexte de crise écologique nous enjoint aujourd’hui de nous [re]demander « pourquoi ».
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December 2021
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L'exposition « Paysans designers » présentée au Musée des Arts décoratifs et du Design Bordeaux se penche sur ces pratiques visant à résoudre les problèmes des agriculteurs et à fluidifier leurs usages : nourrir tout en régénérant les sols et les écosystèmes plutôt qu'en les exploitant, redéfinir les modes de production de l'alimentation, répondre aux bouleversements de(...)
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L'exposition « Paysans designers » présentée au Musée des Arts décoratifs et du Design Bordeaux se penche sur ces pratiques visant à résoudre les problèmes des agriculteurs et à fluidifier leurs usages : nourrir tout en régénérant les sols et les écosystèmes plutôt qu'en les exploitant, redéfinir les modes de production de l'alimentation, répondre aux bouleversements de(...)
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Paysans Designers, l'agriculture en mouvement
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L'exposition « Paysans designers » présentée au Musée des Arts décoratifs et du Design Bordeaux se penche sur ces pratiques visant à résoudre les problèmes des agriculteurs et à fluidifier leurs usages : nourrir tout en régénérant les sols et les écosystèmes plutôt qu'en les exploitant, redéfinir les modes de production de l'alimentation, répondre aux bouleversements de la biodiversité et du climat. L'exposition et cette publication montre une agriculture réinventée, engagée pour faire face aux bouleversements de la biodiversité et du climat, qui ne répond plus à un seul modèle adaptable pour tous, mais rassemble des pratiques singulières, contextuelles, fédérées autour de la notion d'agroécologie paysanne. Ingénieurs, designers, botanistes, artistes, paysans ou poètes s'interrogent ici sur l'invention d'une culture nouvelle qui place l'humain au coeur d'alliances inédites avec la nature, et le repositionne comme un des maillons du vivant aux côtés des êtres animés, plantes et animaux. Une culture dans laquelle l'Homme respecte la nature, et qui confère un statut à celui qui la cultive, le paysan.
Paysans Designers, l'agriculture en mouvement
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L'exposition « Paysans designers » présentée au Musée des Arts décoratifs et du Design Bordeaux se penche sur ces pratiques visant à résoudre les problèmes des agriculteurs et à fluidifier leurs usages : nourrir tout en régénérant les sols et les écosystèmes plutôt qu'en les exploitant, redéfinir les modes de production de l'alimentation, répondre aux bouleversements de la biodiversité et du climat. L'exposition et cette publication montre une agriculture réinventée, engagée pour faire face aux bouleversements de la biodiversité et du climat, qui ne répond plus à un seul modèle adaptable pour tous, mais rassemble des pratiques singulières, contextuelles, fédérées autour de la notion d'agroécologie paysanne. Ingénieurs, designers, botanistes, artistes, paysans ou poètes s'interrogent ici sur l'invention d'une culture nouvelle qui place l'humain au coeur d'alliances inédites avec la nature, et le repositionne comme un des maillons du vivant aux côtés des êtres animés, plantes et animaux. Une culture dans laquelle l'Homme respecte la nature, et qui confère un statut à celui qui la cultive, le paysan.
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De déambulations en souvenirs, la narratrice traverse des villes immenses qui se mélangent à des villages, à la recherche des traces de leurs histoires entremêlées. Brighton, New Brighton. Lisbonne, New Lisbon. Berlin, New Berlin. Paris, New Paris. Carlisle, New Carlisle. York, New York. La Rochelle, New Rochelle. L’auteure nous propose un récit hybride, textuel et(...)
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De déambulations en souvenirs, la narratrice traverse des villes immenses qui se mélangent à des villages, à la recherche des traces de leurs histoires entremêlées. Brighton, New Brighton. Lisbonne, New Lisbon. Berlin, New Berlin. Paris, New Paris. Carlisle, New Carlisle. York, New York. La Rochelle, New Rochelle. L’auteure nous propose un récit hybride, textuel et(...)
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Seven sisters ou les villes jumelles
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De déambulations en souvenirs, la narratrice traverse des villes immenses qui se mélangent à des villages, à la recherche des traces de leurs histoires entremêlées. Brighton, New Brighton. Lisbonne, New Lisbon. Berlin, New Berlin. Paris, New Paris. Carlisle, New Carlisle. York, New York. La Rochelle, New Rochelle. L’auteure nous propose un récit hybride, textuel et photographique au travers de sept portraits croisés. Au fil d’un itinéraire allant de Minneapolis aux rives de l’Atlantique. Comme un lent retour vers l’Est.
Seven sisters ou les villes jumelles
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De déambulations en souvenirs, la narratrice traverse des villes immenses qui se mélangent à des villages, à la recherche des traces de leurs histoires entremêlées. Brighton, New Brighton. Lisbonne, New Lisbon. Berlin, New Berlin. Paris, New Paris. Carlisle, New Carlisle. York, New York. La Rochelle, New Rochelle. L’auteure nous propose un récit hybride, textuel et photographique au travers de sept portraits croisés. Au fil d’un itinéraire allant de Minneapolis aux rives de l’Atlantique. Comme un lent retour vers l’Est.
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October 2021
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Trees have been deliberately connected with houses since they were introduced as a prominent part of architectural design. The relationships of contiguity between houses and trees have existed since ancient times. However, at the end of the 19th century those links became explicit in the design process, as the house emerged as one of the fundamental architectural(...)
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Trees have been deliberately connected with houses since they were introduced as a prominent part of architectural design. The relationships of contiguity between houses and trees have existed since ancient times. However, at the end of the 19th century those links became explicit in the design process, as the house emerged as one of the fundamental architectural(...)
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Outdoor domesticity: Houses and trees
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Trees have been deliberately connected with houses since they were introduced as a prominent part of architectural design. The relationships of contiguity between houses and trees have existed since ancient times. However, at the end of the 19th century those links became explicit in the design process, as the house emerged as one of the fundamental architectural programs, and as the result of an increasing sensibility towards environmental aspects and the landscape. The first part of this publication is to present a collection of exemplary five houses that evinced explicit relationships with pre-existing trees. The five twentieth century projects are: La Casa (B. Rudofsky, 1969), Cottage Caesar (M. Breuer, 1951), Ville La Roche (Le Corbusier & P. Jeanneret, 1923), Villa Pepa (J. Navarro Baldeweg, 1994) and Hexenhaus (A. & P. Smithson, 1984-2002). The second part of the book contributes three theoretical concerns for the contemporary project, those ones which are established in the process, with respect to time, place and outdoor domesticity in modern western housing.
Outdoor domesticity: Houses and trees
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Trees have been deliberately connected with houses since they were introduced as a prominent part of architectural design. The relationships of contiguity between houses and trees have existed since ancient times. However, at the end of the 19th century those links became explicit in the design process, as the house emerged as one of the fundamental architectural programs, and as the result of an increasing sensibility towards environmental aspects and the landscape. The first part of this publication is to present a collection of exemplary five houses that evinced explicit relationships with pre-existing trees. The five twentieth century projects are: La Casa (B. Rudofsky, 1969), Cottage Caesar (M. Breuer, 1951), Ville La Roche (Le Corbusier & P. Jeanneret, 1923), Villa Pepa (J. Navarro Baldeweg, 1994) and Hexenhaus (A. & P. Smithson, 1984-2002). The second part of the book contributes three theoretical concerns for the contemporary project, those ones which are established in the process, with respect to time, place and outdoor domesticity in modern western housing.
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May 2022
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The difficulty of reconciling our basic needs with the long history of cultural landscapes, in all their inherent beauty and sufficiency, has become clear. With our deep trust in modern technology, in progress and in a demanding global lifestyle we have become a real threat to our world. Yet, today the existential and elementary nature of landscapes remains the bearer of(...)
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The difficulty of reconciling our basic needs with the long history of cultural landscapes, in all their inherent beauty and sufficiency, has become clear. With our deep trust in modern technology, in progress and in a demanding global lifestyle we have become a real threat to our world. Yet, today the existential and elementary nature of landscapes remains the bearer of(...)
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Landscape analogue: About material culture and idealism. landscript #6
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The difficulty of reconciling our basic needs with the long history of cultural landscapes, in all their inherent beauty and sufficiency, has become clear. With our deep trust in modern technology, in progress and in a demanding global lifestyle we have become a real threat to our world. Yet, today the existential and elementary nature of landscapes remains the bearer of a successful metaphor for “balance”. Why not draw—amidst a truly global crisis—conclusions out of our long history of designed nature, of places shaped by skilled labor and a quest for pleasure? This publication seeks to stimulate the “Analogue” dimension as a substantial concept for everyday landscape thinking. In an anthology of interdisciplinary essays, this volume stresses the necessity for a fundamental shift, within the likely framework of a future of restricted resources, a radically different mobility or “hot” cities.
Landscape analogue: About material culture and idealism. landscript #6
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The difficulty of reconciling our basic needs with the long history of cultural landscapes, in all their inherent beauty and sufficiency, has become clear. With our deep trust in modern technology, in progress and in a demanding global lifestyle we have become a real threat to our world. Yet, today the existential and elementary nature of landscapes remains the bearer of a successful metaphor for “balance”. Why not draw—amidst a truly global crisis—conclusions out of our long history of designed nature, of places shaped by skilled labor and a quest for pleasure? This publication seeks to stimulate the “Analogue” dimension as a substantial concept for everyday landscape thinking. In an anthology of interdisciplinary essays, this volume stresses the necessity for a fundamental shift, within the likely framework of a future of restricted resources, a radically different mobility or “hot” cities.
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For ancient Romans, genius loci was literally "the genius of the place,"the presiding divinity who inhabited a site and gave it meaning. While we are less attuned to divinity today, we still sense that a place has significance. In this book, eminent garden historian John Dixon Hunt explores genius loci in many settings, including contemporary land art, the paintings of(...)
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For ancient Romans, genius loci was literally "the genius of the place,"the presiding divinity who inhabited a site and gave it meaning. While we are less attuned to divinity today, we still sense that a place has significance. In this book, eminent garden historian John Dixon Hunt explores genius loci in many settings, including contemporary land art, the paintings of(...)
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Genius Loci: An essay on the meanings of place
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For ancient Romans, genius loci was literally "the genius of the place,"the presiding divinity who inhabited a site and gave it meaning. While we are less attuned to divinity today, we still sense that a place has significance. In this book, eminent garden historian John Dixon Hunt explores genius loci in many settings, including contemporary land art, the paintings of Paul and John Nash, travel writers such as Henry James, Paul Theroux, and Lawrence Durrell on Provence, Mexico, and Cyprus, and landscape architects who invent new meanings for a site. This book is a nuanced, thoughtful exploration of how places become more significant to us through the myriad ways we see, talk about, and remember them.
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For ancient Romans, genius loci was literally "the genius of the place,"the presiding divinity who inhabited a site and gave it meaning. While we are less attuned to divinity today, we still sense that a place has significance. In this book, eminent garden historian John Dixon Hunt explores genius loci in many settings, including contemporary land art, the paintings of Paul and John Nash, travel writers such as Henry James, Paul Theroux, and Lawrence Durrell on Provence, Mexico, and Cyprus, and landscape architects who invent new meanings for a site. This book is a nuanced, thoughtful exploration of how places become more significant to us through the myriad ways we see, talk about, and remember them.
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Japan today protects one-seventh of its land surface in parks, which are visited by well over a billion people each year. Parkscapes analyzes the origins, development, and distinctive features of these public spaces. Green zones were created by the government beginning in the late nineteenth century for state purposes but eventually evolved into sites of negotiation(...)
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Japan today protects one-seventh of its land surface in parks, which are visited by well over a billion people each year. Parkscapes analyzes the origins, development, and distinctive features of these public spaces. Green zones were created by the government beginning in the late nineteenth century for state purposes but eventually evolved into sites of negotiation(...)
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Parkscapes: green spaces in modern Japan
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Japan today protects one-seventh of its land surface in parks, which are visited by well over a billion people each year. Parkscapes analyzes the origins, development, and distinctive features of these public spaces. Green zones were created by the government beginning in the late nineteenth century for state purposes but eventually evolved into sites of negotiation between bureaucrats and ordinary citizens who use them for demonstrations, riots, and shelters, as well as recreation. Thomas Havens shows how revolutionary officials in the 1870s seized private properties and converted them into public parks for educating and managing citizens in the new emperor-sanctioned state. Rebuilding Tokyo and Yokohama after the earthquake and fires of 1923 spurred the spread of urban parklands both in the capital and other cities. According to Havens, the growth of suburbs, the national mobilization of World War II, and the post-1945 American occupation helped speed the creation of more urban parks, setting the stage for vast increases in public green spaces during Japan’s golden age of affluence from the 1960s through the 1980s. Since the 1990s the Japanese public has embraced a heightened ecological consciousness and become deeply involved in the design and management of both city and natural parks—realms once monopolized by government bureaucrats.
Parkscapes: green spaces in modern Japan
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Japan today protects one-seventh of its land surface in parks, which are visited by well over a billion people each year. Parkscapes analyzes the origins, development, and distinctive features of these public spaces. Green zones were created by the government beginning in the late nineteenth century for state purposes but eventually evolved into sites of negotiation between bureaucrats and ordinary citizens who use them for demonstrations, riots, and shelters, as well as recreation. Thomas Havens shows how revolutionary officials in the 1870s seized private properties and converted them into public parks for educating and managing citizens in the new emperor-sanctioned state. Rebuilding Tokyo and Yokohama after the earthquake and fires of 1923 spurred the spread of urban parklands both in the capital and other cities. According to Havens, the growth of suburbs, the national mobilization of World War II, and the post-1945 American occupation helped speed the creation of more urban parks, setting the stage for vast increases in public green spaces during Japan’s golden age of affluence from the 1960s through the 1980s. Since the 1990s the Japanese public has embraced a heightened ecological consciousness and become deeply involved in the design and management of both city and natural parks—realms once monopolized by government bureaucrats.
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April 2011
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