Landscapes in the Making Hardcover by Stephen Daniels

Product Details

• Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Coll. (2025-04-15)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 388 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780884025214
• Item Weight: 1377.81 grams
• Dimensions: 27.28 x 22.35 x 2.79 cm

How are landscapes created? Landscapes in the Making goes beyond professional design and planning to examine the social range of knowledge, technique, and imagination in the making and meaning of landscapes—from the work of quarrying and construction to that of cultivation, maintenance, stewardship, salvage, reclamation, ritual, and remembrance. Deploying an array of documentary, visual, and field sources, this volume brings to life the agency and skill of diverse and often disregarded peoples, in a range of periods and places, working in often demanding, precarious, and coercive conditions. Chapters focus on the physical and social worlds of trash dumps, gravel pits, and abandoned canneries as well as on construction sites for churches, palaces, parks, gardens, and government buildings. In addition to addressing local place-making, the volume surveys wider regional and international geographies of movement, both of people and materials. The landscapes described are far from finished—they are provisional, and always in the making.

About the Author

Stephen Daniels is Professor of Cultural Geography, Emeritus, at the University of Nottingham.

Dell Upton is Distinguished Research Professor of Architectural History at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Professor of Architecture, Emeritus, at the University of California, Berkeley.