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Landscape and Agency explores how landscape, as an idea, a visual medium and a design practice, is organized, appropriated and framed in the transformation of places, from the local to the global. It highlights how the development of the idea of agency in landscape theory and practice can fundamentally change our engagement with future landscapes. Including a wide range of international contributions, each illustrated chapter investigates the many ways in which the relationship between the ideas and practices of landscape, and social and subjective formations and material processes, are invested with agency. They critically examine the role of landscape in processes of contemporary urban development, environmental debate and political agendas and explore how these relations can be analysed and rethought through a dialogue between theory and practice.

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• List of figures(p. vii)
• Notes on contributors(p. x)
• Acknowledgements(p. xiv)
• Foreword(p. xvi)
• Introduction: critical concerns of landscape(p. 1)
• 1 Landscapes of post-history(p. 7)
• 2 Reciprocal landscapes: material portraits in New York City and elsewhere(p. 18)
• 3 Agency, advocacy, vocabulary: three landscape projects(p. 34)
• 4 The law is at fault? Landscape rights and 'agency' in international law(p. 52)
• 5 How to live in a jungle: the (bio)politics of the park as urban model(p. 65)
• 6 Planetary aesthetics(p. 78)
• 7 The closed landscapes of Sverdlovsk-44 and Krasnoyarsk-26(p. 90)
• 8 Rhythm, agency, scoring and the city(p. 104)
• 9 Publicity and propriety: democracy and manners in Britain's public landscape(p. 117)
• 10 The power of the incremental: agronomic investment in Lisbon's Chelas valley(p. 131)
• 11 Post-landscape or the potential of other relations with the land(p. 144)
• 12 Activating equitable landscapes and critical design assemblages in Bangkok(p. 164)
• 13 Agency and artifice in the environment of neoliberalism(p. 177)
• Afterword: landscape's agency(p. 188)
• Index(p. 193)

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Ed Wall is the Academic Leader Landscape at the University of Greenwich. London, Visiting Professor at Politecnico di Milano (DiAP) and City of Vienna Visiting Professor 2017 for urban culture, pubilc space and the future - urban equity and the global agenda (SKuOR. TU Wien).
Tim Waterman is senior lecturer and landscape architecture theory coordinator at the University of Greenwich, and a tutor at the Bartlett School of Architecture. UCL. He writes for a wide range of professional and academic publications on the subjects of power democracy, taste, foodways and everyday life.