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What is Landscape? by John R. Stilgoe (review)

What is Landscape? by John R. Stilgoe (review) Book Review shaped and shape deliberately for permanent purposes” WHAT IS LANDSCAPE? (Stilgoe 2015, ix). With this definition landscape is a John R. Stilgoe. 2015. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The noun, but in between the lines the reader can glean its MIT Press. 280 pages. $19.95 hardcover, $13.95 eBook, close relationship to process, action, and experience— ISBN: 978-0262029896 (hardcover), ISBN: 978- whether influenced by environmental or anthropogenic 0262330763 (eBook). changes. He stresses that his book’s approach is “a compact analysis of ‘landscape’ as a noun stripped of Reviewed by Laura R . Musacchio accessory and ornament, the word naming the skeleton What is landscape? This is one of the most fundamen- and sinews of shaped land” (Stilgoe 2015, x). In its es- tal questions for landscape practitioners and research- sence, this book is an analysis of the form and meaning ers of the built environment to consider as a motivation of landscape as a noun in the English language, and by for critical thinking about the past, present, and future. extension, how this rich, place-based vocabulary has This type of question is truly a brainteaser that every also been influenced by other languages such as Fri - generation of landscape architects http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Landscape Journal: design, planning, and management of the land University of Wisconsin Press

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University of Wisconsin Press
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1553-2704

Abstract

Book Review shaped and shape deliberately for permanent purposes” WHAT IS LANDSCAPE? (Stilgoe 2015, ix). With this definition landscape is a John R. Stilgoe. 2015. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The noun, but in between the lines the reader can glean its MIT Press. 280 pages. $19.95 hardcover, $13.95 eBook, close relationship to process, action, and experience— ISBN: 978-0262029896 (hardcover), ISBN: 978- whether influenced by environmental or anthropogenic 0262330763 (eBook). changes. He stresses that his book’s approach is “a compact analysis of ‘landscape’ as a noun stripped of Reviewed by Laura R . Musacchio accessory and ornament, the word naming the skeleton What is landscape? This is one of the most fundamen- and sinews of shaped land” (Stilgoe 2015, x). In its es- tal questions for landscape practitioners and research- sence, this book is an analysis of the form and meaning ers of the built environment to consider as a motivation of landscape as a noun in the English language, and by for critical thinking about the past, present, and future. extension, how this rich, place-based vocabulary has This type of question is truly a brainteaser that every also been influenced by other languages such as Fri - generation of landscape architects

Journal

Landscape Journal: design, planning, and management of the landUniversity of Wisconsin Press

Published: Jan 16, 2018

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