Jody Beck

Landscape and Utopia (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines three landmark utopian visions in 20th century landscape architectural, planning, and architectural theory. A must-read for instructors, students, and researchers of landscape architecture, planning, and architecture, as well as utopian studies, cultural and social history, and environmental theory.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351053716
• Artikelnr.: 66340520

Autorenporträt

Jody Beck is an associate professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Colorado Denver, USA. His research interests center around the political content of landscape. His first book, John Nolen and the Metropolitan Landscape, covers the political underpinnings of a figure significant to the development of the modern professions of both landscape architecture and city planning. He has also published several works on the importance of food and agricultural production to the politics of landscape.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Why Utopia? Why Landscape? 2. Landscapes as Political Media 3. When the Social Order was a Public Question 4. Land
Capital
and Labor 5. Technology 6. Food and Agriculture 7. Leisure 8. Freedom
Cooperation
and Authority 9. History
Nature
Agency and So What Next? Afterword