Routes, Roads and Landscapes

Routes, Roads and Landscapes

Hvattum, Mari; Brenna, Brita; Larsen, Janike Kampevold

Taylor & Francis Ltd

08/2016

272

Mole

Inglês

9781138246140

15 a 20 dias

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Contents: Introduction: routes, roads and landscapes, Mari Hvattum, Brita Brenna, Beate Elvebakk and Janike Kampevold Larsen; Section I Moving Through the Landscape: King of the road: describing Norwegian landscapes in the 18th century, Brita Brenna; Flow: rivers, roads, routes and cartographies of leisure, Vittoria di Palma; 'To lead the curious to points of view': the 18th-century design of Irish routes, roads and landscapes, Finola O'Kane; A road with a view: C.F. Vogt's painting of Krokkleiva, Torild Gjesvik; Landscape's imprint: on the physiognomy of plants around 1800, Charlotte Klonk; Travel, en route writing, and the problems of correspondence, Charles W.J. Withers. Section II The Route as Icon and Occurrence: Redfining the American sublime, from open road to interstate, David E. Nye; The man who loved views: C.A. Pihl and the making of the modern landscape, Mari Hvattum; Staging the driving experience: parkways in Germany and the United States, Thomas Zeller; The concept of flow in regional planning: Benton MacKaye's contribution to the Tennessee Valley Authority, Christine Macy and Sarah Bonnemaison; Aerocabs and skycar cities: utopian landscapes of mobility, Even Smith Wergeland. Section III Landscapes of Mobility: Towards a politics of mobility, Tim Cresswell; Curating views: the Norwegian tourist route project, Janike Kampevold Larsen; Stop, rest and digest: feeding people into nature, Lars Frers; Roadside aesthetics: guidelines from the Norwegian public roads administration, Beate Elvebakk; Enfolding and gathering the landscape: a geography of England's M1 corridor, Peter Merriman. Coda: Landscapes on the road, Gernot BAhme; Index.