1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910300610103321

Autore

Kühne Olaf

Titolo

Landscape and Power in Geographical Space as a Social-Aesthetic Construct / / by Olaf Kühne

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2018

ISBN

3-319-72902-0

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 pages)

Disciplina

712

Soggetti

Human geography

Environmental sciences - Social aspects

Mass media

Political sociology

Human Geography

Environmental Social Sciences

Media Sociology

Political Sociology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1. Introduction.-  Chapter 2. Theoretical foundations for the work -- Chapter 3. The genesis of societal landscapes and their physical manifestoes -- Chapter 4. Social processes for the social definition of landscape -- Chapter 5. Case studies -- Chapter 6. Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines the power definiteness of landscape from a social constructivist perspective with a particular focus on the importance of aesthetic concepts of landscape in development. It seeks to answer the question of how societal notions of landscape emerge, how they are individually updated and how these ideas affect the use and design of physical space. It also analyzes how physical manifestations of societal activity impact on understandings of individual and societal landscapes and addresses the essential aspect of the social construction of landscape, cultural specificity, which in turn is discussed in the context of the expansion of a western landscape concept. The book offers an



unprecedented, comprehensive and detailed examination of societal power relations in the context of landscape development. The numerous case studies from the physical manifestation of modern spatial planning in the United States, the power discourses concerning the design of model railway landscapes, and the medial production of stereotypical landscape notions shed light on the complex and multilayered interactions of collective and individual landscape references. It is a valuable resource for geographers, sociologists, landscape architects, landscape planners and philosophers.