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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
Landscape Journal: design, planning, and management of the land – University of Wisconsin Press
Published: Jan 16, 2018
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