Research on Place & Space: Landscape

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Journals

On-line Bibliographies

Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE) Bibliographies
Landscape: An Unorganized, Unedited, and Unexpurgated Bibliography of Spaces and Places Past. Present, and Future (Adam T. Smith)
Place and Identity, Richard A. Viti
Place and Identity, Rochelle Johnson
Place and Landscape
Self and Place, Gioia Woods
Working Bibliography on Place
Yale University Press Landscape Studies Books

Courses and Programs

Land Place Culture Identity (Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Western Australia)
Landscape Ecology (George Hess, Ashton Drew, NC State)
Landscape Seminar (W. J. T. Mitchell)
Space, Place and Landscape Across the Disciplines (U. Michigan)
Space, Place and Landscape in Contemporary Art (Shannon Mattern) See also here.

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General Bibliography

Abrahamsson, Kurt Viking. “Landscapes Lost and Gained: On Changes in Semiotic Resources.” Human Ecology Review 6:2 (1999): 51-61. http://www.humanecologyreview.org/pastissues/her62/62abrahamsson.pdf

Angell, Eric. “Design for Non-Dualistic Experiences.” Environmental and Architectural Phenomenology (Winter 1996) http://www.arch.ksu.edu/seamon/Angell.htm

Appleton, Jay. The Experience of Landscape. London: John Wiley, 1975.

Arntzen, Sven. “Landscape and Meaning: The Immaterial Dimension of Environmental Preservation.” Backhaus, Gary and John Murungi, eds. Tensional Landscapes: The Dynamics of Boundaries and Placements. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2003.

Backhaus, Gary and John Murungi. Transformations of Urban and Suburban Landscapes: Perspectives from Philosophy, Geography, and Architecture. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2002.

Barrell, John. The Idea of Landscape and the Sense of Place 1730-1840: An Approach to the Poetry of John Clare. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972.

Basso, Keith. “Wisdom Sits in Places: Notes on a Western Apache Landscape.” Feld, Steven and Keith H. Basso. Senses of Place. Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research Press, 1996.

Beilin, Ruth. “Underlying It All: Faceless Landscapes and Commodified Views.” Rural Society 11:3 (2001): 147-161.

Bender, Barbara and Margot Winer, eds. Contested Landscapes: Movement, Exile and Place. Oxford: Berg 2001; Palgrave Macmillan, 2001.

Bender, Barbara. Landscapes: Politics and Perspectives. Oxford: Berg, 1993.

Bloch, Maurice. “People into Places: Zafimaniry Concepts of Clarity.” Hirsch, Eric and M. O’Hanlon, eds. The Anthropology of Landscape: Perspectives on Place and Space. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995: 63-77.

Bourassa, Steven. The Aesthetics of Landscape. London; New York: Belhaven Press, 1991.

Carter, Paul. The Road to Botany Bay: An Exploration of Landscape and History. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. University of Chicago Press Reprint.

Chaffin, V. F. “Dwelling and Rhythm: The Isle Brevelle as a Landscape of Home.” Landscape Journal 7 (1989): 96-106.

Corner, J. “A Discourse on Theory I: “Sounding the Depths” – Origins, Theory, and Representation.” Landscape Journal 9 (1990) 61-78.

Cosgrove, Denis and Stephen Daniels, eds. The Iconography of Landscape. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

Cosgrove, Denis. Social Formation and Symbolic Landscape. University of Wisconsin Press, 1998. Reprint of 1984 edition.

Duncan, James & Nancy Duncan. “The Aestheticization of the Politics of Landscape Preservation.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 91:2 (2001): 387-409.

Egoz, S, Bowring, J. and Perkins, H. C. “Tastes in Tension: Form, Function, and Meaning in New Zealand’s Farmed Landscapes.” Landscape and Urban Planning (Special Issue: Bridging Human and Natural Sciences in Landscape Research) 57 (2001):177-196.

Fung, Stanislaus. “Here and There in Yuan ye” Design Philosophy Papers 6 (2003-4) http://www.desphilosophy.com/dpp/dpp_journal/paper1/dpp_paper1.html

Gell, Alfred. “The Language of the Forest: Landscape and Phonological Iconism in Umeda.” Hirsch, Eric and M. O’Hanlon, eds. The Anthropology of Landscape: Perspectives on Place and Space. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995: 232-254.

Gill, Gerry. “Landscape as Symbolic Form: Remembering Thick Place in Deep Time.” Critical Horizons: Journal of Social and Critical Theory 3:2 (2002): 177-199.

Gow, Peter. “Land, People, and Paper in Western Amazonia.” Hirsch, Eric and M. O’Hanlon, eds. The Anthropology of Landscape: Perspectives on Place and Space. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995: 43-62.

Green, Nicholas. “Looking at the Landscape: Class Formation and the Visual.” Hirsch, Eric and M. O’Hanlon, eds. The Anthropology of Landscape: Perspectives on Place and Space. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995: 31-42.

Greider, T., and L. Garkovich. “Landscapes: the social construction of nature and the environment.” Rural Sociology 59:1 (1994):1-24.

Grene, Marjorie. “Landscape” in Bruzina, Ronald & Bruce Wilshire, Phenomenology: Dialogues and Bridges. Albany: SUNY Press, 1982: 55-60.

Groth, Paul and Bressi, Todd. Understanding Ordinary Landscapes. New Haven, [Conn.]: Yale University Press, 1997.

Harrison, Charles. “The Effects of Landscape.” in Mitchell, W. J. T. Landscape and Power, 2nd Edition. University of Chicago Press, 1994, 2002.

Hart, John Fraser. The Rural Landscape. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.

Hatley, James. “Where the Beaver Gnaw: Predatory Space in the Urban Landscape.” Backhaus, Gary and John Murungi. Transformations of Urban and Suburban Landscapes: Perspectives from Philosophy, Geography, and Architecture. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2002.

Hayden, Dolores. The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1995.

Higuchi, Tadahiko. The Visual and Spatial Structure of Landscapes. Translated by Charles Terry. MIT Press, 1983.

Hindman, Jane E. “”I Think of That Mountain as My Maternal Grandmother’: Constructing Self and Other through Landscape.” Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 3:2 (Fall 1996): 63-72.

Hirsch, Eric and M. O’Hanlon, eds. The Anthropology of Landscape: Perspectives on Place and Space. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995.

Hirsch, Eric. “Introduction– Landscape Between Place and Space.” In E. Hirsch and M. O’Hanlon, eds. The Anthropology of Landscape: Perspectives on Place and Space. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995: 1-30.

Holmes, Steven. “Place Making, Sacred and Erotic: John Muir’s Mountain Meadow.” Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal 81:3-4 (Fall-Winter 1998): 397-412.

Howett, C. “”If the Doors of Perception Were Cleansed”: Toward an Experiential Aesthetics for the Designed Landscape.” in D. Seamon (Ed.), Dwelling, Seeing, and Designing: Toward a Phenomenological Ecology. Albany, New York: SUNY Press, 1993: 61-73.

Humphrey, Caroline. “Chiefly and Shamanist Landscapes in Mongolia.” Hirsch, Eric and M. O’Hanlon, eds. The Anthropology of Landscape: Perspectives on Place and Space. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995: 135-162.

Ingerson, Alice. “What are cultural landscapes?” http://www.icls.harvard.edu/language/whatare.html

Jackson, John Brinckerhoff. Discovering the Vernacular Landscape. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1986.

Jackson, John Brinckerhoff. The Necessity for Ruins, and Other Topics. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1980.

Jenkins, William. New Topographics. Photographs of a Man-altered Landscape. New York: International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House. 1975.

Kunstler, James Howard. The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America’s Man-Made Landscape. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993.

Layton, Robert. “Relating to the Country in the Western Desert.” Hirsch, Eric and M. O’Hanlon, eds. The Anthropology of Landscape: Perspectives on Place and Space. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995: 210-231.

Layton, Robert and Ucko, Peter J.[Edited.] The Archaeology and Anthropology of Landscape: Shaping Your Landscape. London; New York: Routledge, 1999.

Lewis, Peirce Fee Visual Blight in America [Peirce F. Lewis, David Lowenthal, Yi-Fu Tuan. With commentaries by Donald W. Meining [and] John B. Jackson.] Washington [Association of American Geographers, Commission on College Geography,]

Lopez, Barry. “Landscape and Narrative” Crossing Open Ground. Vintage, 1988.

Lowenthal, David. “Past Time, Present Place: Landscape and Memory” Geographical Review 65:1 (1975): 1-36.

Meinig, D. W., ed. The Interpretation of Ordinary Landscape. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979.

Mitchell, D. “The lure of the local: landscape studies at the end of a troubled century.” Progress in Human Geography 25:2 (June 2001): 269-281.

Mitchell, W. J. T. Landscape and Power, 2nd Edition. University of Chicago Press, 1994, 2002.

Mitchell, W. J. T. “Imperial Landscape” in Mitchell, W. J. T. Landscape and Power, 2nd Edition. University of Chicago Press, 1994, 2002.

Morphy, Howard. “Landscape and the Reproduction of the Ancestral Past.” Hirsch, Eric and M. O’Hanlon, eds. The Anthropology of Landscape: Perspectives on Place and Space. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995: 184-209.

Murungi, John. “On the Question of Land: A Philosophical Perspective.” Backhaus, Gary and John Murungi. Transformations of Urban and Suburban Landscapes: Perspectives from Philosophy, Geography, and Architecture. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2002.

Nogué i Font, J. “Toward a Phenomenology of Landscape and Landscape Experience: An Example from Catalonia.” in D. Seamon (Ed.), Dwelling, Seeing, and Designing: Toward a Phenomenological Ecology. Albany, New York: SUNY Press, 1993: 159-180.

Norton, William. Explorations in the Understanding of Landscape: a Cultural Geography. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Olwig, Kenneth. “Recovering the Substantive Nature of Landscape.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 86:4 (December 1996): 630-653.

Olwig, Kenneth. Landscape, Nature, and the Body Politic: From Britain’s Renaissance to America’s New World. University of Wisconsin Press, 2002.

Smith, Jonathan M. “No community without spectacle: a comment on Olwig’s Landscape, Nature, and the Body Politic.” Philosophy and Geography 6:2 (August 2003): 263-265.

Pinney, Christopher. “Moral Topophilia: The Significations of Landscape in Indian Oleographs.” Hirsch, Eric and M. O’Hanlon, eds. The Anthropology of Landscape: Perspectives on Place and Space. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995: 78-113.

Relph, Edward. Rational Landscapes and Humanistic Geography. London: Croon Helm, 1981.

Riegner, M. “Toward a Holistic Understanding of Place: Reading a Landscape Through its Flora and Fauna.” in D. Seamon (Ed.), Dwelling, Seeing, and Designing: Toward a Phenomenological Ecology. Albany, New York: SUNY Press, 1993: 181-215.

Riley, Robert B. “Attachment to the Ordinary Landscape.” Altman, Irwin & Setha M. Low, eds. Place Attachment. New York: Plenum Press, 1992: 14ff.

Roskill, Mark. The Languages of Landscape. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997.

Sauer, Carl Sauer, “The Morphology of Landscape,” in J. Leighly, Land and life: a selection from the writings of Carl Ortwin Sauer. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1963. (Paperback edition, 1967.). Originally published in Geography 2:2, 1925.

Schama, Simon. Landscape and Memory. London: HarperCollins, 1995.

Scott, M. J., D. V. Canter. “Picture or Place? A Multiple Sorting Study of Landscape.” Journal of Environmental Psychology 17:4 (Dec 1997) 263-281.

Seamon, D., & Nordin, C. “Marketplace as Place Ballet: a Swedish Example.” Landscape 24 (1980): 35-41.

Seddon, G. Landprints: Reflections on Place and Landscape. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Selwyn, Tom. “Landscapes of Liberation and Imprisonment: Towards an Anthropology of the Israeli Landscape.” Hirsch, Eric and M. O’Hanlon, eds. The Anthropology of Landscape: Perspectives on Place and Space. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995: 114-134.

Shepheard, Paul. The Cultivated Wilderness, or What is Landscape? MIT Press, 1997.

Silko, Leslie Marmon. “Landscape, History, and the Pueblo Imagination,” Daniel Halpern, On Nature: Nature, Landscape, and Natural History (North Point, 1987).

Sinha, Amita. Landscape Perception. London: Academic, 1995.

Sopher, David. “The Landscape of Home: Myth, Experience, Social Meaning.” Meinig, ed. The Interpretation of Ordinary Landscape. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979.

Spirn, Anne Whiston. The Language of Landscape. Yale University Press, 1998.

Taussig, Michael. “The Beach (A Fantasy)” in Mitchell, W. J. T. Landscape and Power, 2nd Edition. University of Chicago Press, 1994, 2002.

Thompson, George F., with a foreword by Charles E. Little. Landscape in America. University of Texas Press, 1995.

Thwaites, K. “Experiential Landscape Place: an exploration of space and experience in neighbourhood landscape architecture.” Landscape Research 26:3 (1 July 2001): 245-255.

Tilley, Christopher. A Phenomenology of Landscape: Places, Paths and Monuments. Oxford: Berg, 1994.

Toren, Christina. “Seeing the Ancestral Sites: Transformations in Fijian Notions of the Land.” Hirsch, Eric and M. O’Hanlon, eds. The Anthropology of Landscape: Perspectives on Place and Space. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995: 163-183.

Tuan, Yi-fu. Landscapes of Fear. New York: Pantheon Books, 1979.

Vitek, William. “Rediscovering the Landscape.” Vitek, William & Wes Jackson, eds. Rooted in the Land: Essays on Community and Place. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996: 1-7.

von Maltzahn, K. Nature as Landscape: Dwelling and understanding. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1994.

Wessels, Tom. Reading the Forested Landscape: A Natural History of New England. Woodstock, VT: Countryman Press, 1997.

Whyte, William Hollingsworth. The Last Landscape. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968.

Zube, Ervin. Landscapes: Selected Writings of J. B. Jackson. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1970.

Zukin, S. Landscapes of Power From Detroit to Disney World. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.