Download or read book Our Landscapes Our Narratives written by Henry Indangasi and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Our Vanishing Landscape written by Eric Sloane and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes readers on a leisurely journey through a bygone era with fascinating accounts of canals, corduroy roads, and turnpikes, waterwheels and icehouses, colorful road signs and their painters, circus folk, and more. Brimming with anecdotes about people and the times, this delightful narrative remains a milestone of Americana. 81 black-and-white illustrations.
Download or read book Landscape Narratives written by Matthew Potteiger and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1998-03-20 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text covers the most popular types of landscapes designed today, from garden and park design, historic preservation and restoration, to community and regional planning.
Download or read book Creation Stories written by Anthony Aveni and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible exploration of how diverse cultures have explained humanity’s origins through narratives about the natural environment Drawing from a vast array of creation myths—Babylonian, Greek, Aztec, Maya, Inca, Chinese, Hindu, Navajo, Polynesian, African, Norse, Inuit, and more—this short, illustrated book uncovers both the similarities and differences in our attempts to explain the universe. Anthony Aveni, an award-winning author and professor of astronomy and anthropology, examines the ways various cultures around the world have attempted to explain our origins, and what roles the natural environment plays in shaping these narratives. The book also celebrates the audacity of the human imagination. Whether the first humans emerged from a cave, as in the Inca myths, or from bamboo stems, as the Bantu people of Africa believed, or whether the universe is simply the result of Vishnu’s cyclical inhales and exhales, each of these fascinating stories reflects a deeper understanding of the culture it arose from as well as its place in the larger human narrative.
Download or read book Landscapes Beyond Land written by Arnar Árnason and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2012-09-15 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Land is embedded in a multitude of material and cultural contexts, through which the human experience of landscape emerges. Ethnographers, with their participative methodologies, long-term co-residence, and concern with the quotidian aspects of the places where they work, are well positioned to describe landscapes in this fullest of senses. The contributors explore how landscapes become known primarily through movement and journeying rather than stasis. Working across four continents, they explain how landscapes are constituted and recollected in the stories people tell of their journeys through them, and how, in turn, these stories are embedded in landscaped forms.
Download or read book Mapping the Invisible Landscape written by Kent C. Ryden and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Any landscape has an unseen component: a subjective component of experience, memory, and narrative which people familiar with the place understand to be an integral part of its geography but which outsiders may not suspect the existence ofOCounless they listen and read carefully. This invisible landscape is make visible though stories, and these stories are the focus of this engrossing book. Traveling across the invisible landscape in which we imaginatively dwell, Kent RydenOCohimself a most careful listener and readerOCoasks the following questions. What categories of meaning do we read into our surroundings? What forms of expression serve as the most reliable maps to understanding those meanings? Our sense of any place, he argues, consists of a deeply ingrained experiential knowledge of its physical makeup; an awareness of its communal and personal history; a sense of our identity as being inextricably bound up with its events and ways of life; and an emotional reaction, positive or negative, to its meanings and memories. Ryden demonstrates that both folk and literary narratives about place bear a striking thematic and stylistic resemblance. Accordingly, "Mapping the Invisible Landscape" examines both kinds of narratives. For his oral materials, Ryden provides an in-depth analysis of narratives collected in the Coeur d'Alene mining district in the Idaho panhandle; for his consideration of written works, he explores the OC essay of place, OCO the personal essay which takes as its subject a particular place and a writer's relationship to that place. Drawing on methods and materials from geography, folklore, and literature, "Mapping the Invisible Landscape" offers a broadly interdisciplinary analysis of the way we situate ourselves imaginatively in the landscape, the way we inscribe its surface with stories. Written in an extremely engaging style, this book will lead its readers to an awareness of the vital role that a sense of place plays in the formation of local cultures, to an understanding of the many-layered ways in which place interacts with individual lives, and to renewed appreciation of the places in their own lives and landscapes."
Download or read book On Landscapes written by Susan Herrington and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no escaping landscape: it's everywhere and part of everyone's life. Landscapes have received much less attention in aesthetics than those arts we can choose to ignore, such as painting or music – but they can tell us a lot about the ethical and aesthetic values of the societies that produce them. Drawing on examples from a wide range of landscapes from around the world and throughout history, Susan Herrington considers the ways landscapes can affect our emotions, our imaginations, and our understanding of the passage of time. On Landscapes reveals the design work involved in even the most naturalistic of landscapes, and the ways in which contemporary landscapes are turning the challenges of the industrial past into opportunities for the future. Inviting us to thoughtfully see and experience the landscapes that we encounter in our daily lives, On Landscapes demonstrates that art is all around us.
Download or read book Landscape Stories written by Jem Southam and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2005-08-25 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Landscape Stories' offers a selection from the works of photographer Jem Southam. Each series of pictures describes the subtle changes in the landscape of the English West Country that he has witnessed over years of close observation, concentrating on water features.
Download or read book Landscapes of the Heart written by Thomas Morgan Nelson and published by NeWest Publishers Ltd.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of personal essays takes a refreshing look at how our interaction with the environment—a river, a block of ice, a bolt of lightning, a piece of land—shapes who we are and how we connect with our world.The essayists include writers, environmental activists, and academics. Each essay relates the personal experiences of a special natural place—a place cherished or sorely missed.
Download or read book Shifting Ground written by Lorna Kristina Madeleine Brittan and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Heart of America written by Tim Palmer and published by Shearwater Books. This book was released on 1999-09 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the cliffs of Big Sur to the dunes at Cape Hatteras, from the bogs of the Boundary Waters to the deserts of the Rio Grande, the landscape of America has shaped us into the people we are. Not only is it central to ecological health and essential to the economy, it has helped form our culture and serves as a basis of national pride. The heart of America lies in the rock and soil, the mountains and the plains that surround us.In this illuminating portrait of America at the threshold of the new millennium, author Tim Palmer explores and assesses the landscape of the United States -- both timeless wonders of natural beauty and lost places scarred by human exploitation. He takes the reader on an informative and inspirational tour of our most vital landscapes, including mountains, forests, grasslands, deserts, rivers, lakes, wetlands, and seashores. He introduces us to the basic geography and ecological value of each landscape, describes historical patterns of land use, considers the most serious threats, and discusses what is being done to protect the landscape for future generations. Throughout, he instills a deeper understanding of the importance of the land, a sense of outrage at the damage that has been done, and a feeling of hope that those working to correct past abuses will succeed.Weaving together geographical, historical, and ecological information and insights, Palmer draws on thirty years of professional experience as a writer, photographer, conservationist, planner, landscape architect, and veteran traveler to present a fresh look at the past, present, and future of our land.Resounding in its account of these landscapes, compelling in the force of its information and the hope of its timely message, The Heart of America offers a fascinating measure of the land around us and a unique look at the place we call home.
Download or read book Landscape Interfaces written by Hannes Palang and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2003-07-31 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been initiated by the workshop on Cultural heritage in changing landscapes, held during the IALE (International Association for Landscape Ecology) European Conference that started in Stockholm, Sweden, in June 200 1 and continued across the Baltic to Tartu, Estonia, in JUly. The papers presented at the workshop have been supported by invited contributions that address a wider range of the cultural heritage management issues and research interfaces required to study cultural landscapes. The book focuses on landscape interfaces. Both the ones we find out there in the landscape and the ones we face while doing research. We hope that this book helps if not to make use of these interfaces, then at least to map them and bridge some of the gaps between them. The editors wish to thank those people helping us to assemble this collection. First of all our gratitude goes to the authors who contributed to the book. We would like to thank Marc Antrop, Mats Widgren, Roland Gustavsson, Marion Pots chin, Barbel Tress, Tiina Peil, Helen Soovali and Anu Printsmann for their quick and helpful advice, opinions and comments during the different stages of editing. Helen Soovali and Anu Printsmann together with Piret Pungas - thank you for technical help.
Download or read book Our Land Our Stories written by Anita Bakshi and published by . This book was released on 2022-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the environmental justice story of the Ramapough Lunaape Nation. Ringwood, New Jersey is home to the Turtle Clan, and many still live in the Ringwood Mines/Landfill Superfund Site. The landscape includes former iron mines, ceremonial stones, a forest in which people hunt for food, and a stew of chemical toxicants from a former Ford manufacturing plant. This project is grounded in a collaborative process; researchers from Rutgers University Department of Landscape Architecture partnered with the Turtle Clan to share site information and stories of community experiences. We investigated contested narratives around the site's contamination by Ford Motor Company, and its listing as a Superfund site in 1983, and again in 2006. Information about this place, people, and landscape has been difficult to understand. There is debate about the history and extent of contamination, as well as centuries of misinformation about the Ramapough. This book seeks to clarify these narratives through clear graphic representations that illustrate the connections between different sets of scientific data, environmental remediation reports, records of the site's industrial history, and personal narratives of the cultural and spiritual traditions of the Ramapough.Presented here you will find, side by side, detailed environmental data from EPA reports and scientific studies alongside narratives of human experience. While scientific studies provide knowledge, they can also strip away significance. Using numbers, figures, and statistics to describe environmental losses, this abstract and academic language is sterile; it misses something vital and important in terms of human experience. There is more to Superfund sites than contaminants and remediation strategies. They are part of the web of environmental relationships that define the landscapes in which we all make our home. This book communicates the impact on human communities and the transmission of cultural practices connected to the land. This 2nd Edition includes more Ramapough voices and stories, illustrated with sketches created during storytelling sessions, Included are representations of the experiences and places important to community elders Vivian Milligan and Wayne Mann - who decades ago activated the ongoing fight for environmental remediation.
Download or read book The Earth at Our Doorstep written by Annie Stine and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 1996 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-six novelists, poets, and essayists share their personal thoughts on the world that surrounds them, providing an evocative celebration of diverse landscapes in works by W. S. Merwin, Sue Halpern, Reynolds Price, Andrei Condrescu, Gary Snyder, and Pam Houston. Original. 15,000 first printing.
Download or read book Landscape Biographies written by Jan Kolen and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the long and complex histories of landscapes from personal, social and cultural perspectives.
Download or read book Landscape Architecture as Storytelling written by Bob Scarfo and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-30 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces students, practitioners, and laypeople to a comfortable approach to learning landscape architectural design free of design jargon and derived from their existing knowledge. A step-by-step process has readers consider their knowledge of language as metaphorically related to basic design and landscape design. Through information delivery and questioning processes, readers build on what they already know, their tacit understanding of language as applied to problem solving and storytelling. Everyone is a storyteller. Taken one step at a time through a three-tiered analogy of language, basic design, and landscape design, readers learn the makeup and role of such design features as points, lines, planes, volumes and sequential volumetric spaces that make up their worlds. With that, in a sense, new world view, and numerous questions and examples, readers begin to see that they in fact daily read the environments in which they live, work, play, raise families, and grow old. Once they realize how they read their surroundings they are helped to recognize that they can build narratives into their surroundings. At that point the existence of authored landscape narratives finds readers understanding a design process that relies on the designer-as-author, landscape-as-text, and participant, user-as-reader. That process has the reader write a first- or second-person narrative, visually interpret the written narrative into a storyboard, and turn the storyboard into a final design, the physical makeup of which is read by those who participate in it.
Download or read book Stories of Our Great Rivers Part 1 written by Amrahs Hseham and published by Mds0. This book was released on 2023-12-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Stories of Our Great Rivers: Part-1" is a captivating anthology that navigates the diverse narratives woven along the banks of some of the world's most iconic rivers. This literary journey unfolds across continents, delving into the hearts of civilizations, cultures, and ecosystems shaped by the ceaseless flow of these majestic waterways. From the ancient cradle of Mesopotamia to the pristine landscapes of the Amazon, the collection explores the historical, cultural, and environmental tapestries that rivers have scripted throughout time. The stories encapsulate the essence of human connection, portraying characters as diverse as the landscapes they inhabit. Through the lens of great rivers like the Ganges, Nile, Thames, and Mississippi, readers embark on a reflective exploration of the shared humanity that transcends borders. The tales, rich in cultural diversity, reveal the symbiotic relationship between rivers and the communities that thrive alongside them. This anthology, echoing the age-old tradition of storytellers seated by riverbanks, serves as a reminder that rivers are not mere geographical features but living witnesses to the ebb and flow of human history. Amidst the beauty of these narratives, the collection doesn't shy away from addressing the environmental challenges faced by these lifelines. From pollution and climate change to the impact of damming, the stories provide a nuanced perspective on the delicate balance between human progress and environmental preservation. It's a call to action, urging readers to contemplate their role in the stewardship of these vital rivers and the ecosystems they support. "Stories of Our Great Rivers: Part 1" is not just a literary exploration; it's an ode to the power of rivers to shape cultures, sustain life, and reflect the evolving relationship between humanity and the natural world. Through this anthology, readers are invited to embark on a voyage of contemplation, celebrating the beauty, resilience, and interconnectedness of the great rivers that define our global landscape.
