Literature and Resources Concepts of Landscape 2010

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Literature Inputs

Dear students, please study this literature as background information for our online seminar.

• Corner, James; MacLean, Alex S. 1996. "Taking measures across the American landscape". New Haven, Conn.: Yale Univ. Press.

• Jackson, John Brinckerhoff. 1980: "By way of conclusion. How to study the landscape" In: The necessity for ruins, and other topics, 113-126. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press.

• Meinig, D. W.. 1979. "The Beholding Eye: Ten Versions of the Same Scene." In: The Interpretation of Ordinary Landscapes: Geographical Essays, edited by D. W. Meinig and John Brinckerhoff Jackson, 33-48. New York: Oxford University Press.

• Meinig, D.W.. 1979. "Reading the landscape. An appreciation of W.G. Hoskins and J-B. Jackson." In: The Interpretation of ordinary landscapes: Geographical essays, edited by D. W. Meinig and John Brinckerhoff Jackson, 195-237. New York: Oxford University Press.

• Olwig, Kenneth R. 1996. "Recovering the Substantive Nature of Landscape" In: Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 86 (4), pp. 630-653. Cambridge/Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.

• Sieverts, Thomas. 2003. Cities without cities. An interpretation of the Zwischenstadt. English language ed. London: Spon Press.

Literature for comparison

Dear students, please choose one of the articles listed below according to assignment 4 by writing your names right after it. Please note that you first need to log into the moodle, then come back to the literature and click on the individual link again.

• Chan, Elisabeth C. 2009. What roles for ruins? Meaning and narrative of industrial ruins in contemporary parks. In: ECLAS (ed.). JoLA autumn 2009, 20-31. Munich: Callwey.

• Cosgrove, Denis. 2004. Landscape and Landschaft. Lecture delivered at the “Spatial Turn in History” Symposium, German Historical Institute, February 19, 2004.

• Cosgrove, Denis. 1985. Prospect, Perspective and the Evolution of the Landscape Idea. In: Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, New Series, Vol. 10, No. 1 (1985),pp. 45-62. Published by: Blackwell Publishing on behalf of The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers).

• Drexler, Dóra. 2010. Thoughts on landscape, the specificities of Hungarian landscape perception and their cultural-historical reasons. In: 4D - Zeitschrift für Landschaftsarchitektur und Gartenkunst, 2010 (unpublished material).

• Gehring, Kathrin / Kohsaka, Ryo. 2007. ‘Landscape’ in the Japanese Language: Conceptual Differences and Implications for Landscape Research. In: Landscape Research, Vol. 32, No. 2, pp. 273 – 283, April 2007.

• Jirku, Almut. 2007. Adding Third Nature to Second Nature - Design Strategies for Peripheral Landscapes. In: ECLAS (ed.). JoLA spring 2007, 50-63. Munich: Callwey.

• Jones, Michael. 2006. Landscape, law and justice - concepts and issues. In: Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift - Norwegian Journal of Geography, Vol. 60, 1 - 14. Oslo.

• Kaplan, Adnan. 2009. Landscape architecture's commitment to landscape concept: a missing link? In: ECLAS (ed.). JoLA spring 2009, 56-65. Munich: Callwey.

• Kucan, Ana. 2007. Constructing Landscape Conceptions. In: ECLAS (ed.). JoLA spring 2007, 30-41. Munich: Callwey.

• Mels, Tom. 2006. The Low Countries’ connection: landscape and the struggle over representation around 1600. In: Journal of Historical Geography 32 (2006), 712-730. Elsevier Ltd.

• Terkenli, Theano S. 2001. Towards a theory of the landscape: the Aegean landscape as a cultural image. In: Landscape and Urban Planning 57 (2001), 197-208. Elsevier Ltd.

• Weller, Richard. 2008. Planning by Design - Landscape Architectural Scenarios for a Rapidly Growing City. In: ECLAS (ed.). JoLA autumn 2008, 18-29. Munich: Callwey.

• Yu, Kongjian/Lei, Zhang/Dihua, Li. 2008. Living with Water: Flood Adaptive Landscapes in the Yellow River Basin of China. In: ECLAS (ed.). JoLA autumn 2008, 6-17. Munich: Callwey.