The Pleasure Garden, from Vauxhall to Coney Island draws together the work of musicologists, art historians, and scholars of urban studies and landscape design to explore the attractions and interactions of the pleasure garden, from the opening of Vauxhall in the seventeenth century to the amusement parks of the early twentieth.
Across the Open Field: Essays Drawn from English Landscapes (Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture)
This afterword by John Watkins draws together argumentative threads from across the essays and places them within the longer-term context of English and British diplomats' engagement with literature. From Niccolò Machiavelli to Henry Kissinger, diplomats and writers on diplomacy have drawn on humane literatures. Pointing out that the rise of what we generally think of as modern diplomacy coincided with the humanistic educational and cultural reforms of the Renaissance, Watkins asks what today's devaluation of humane learning within an increasingly technocratic diplomatic sphere means for our diplomatic future.
This course presents a transversal history of ideas, arguments, and visions that shape the built environment within their cultural, technological, and philosophical contexts. Buildings, landscapes, and cities embody ideas about society, culture, technology, and how we should live in the world. Some problems and questions are exemplary of their times; others seem eternal as we continue to grapple with them today. Changes in our ideas and ideals are made visible in our built environment, giving us a unique opportunity to trace their trajectories across time to see 'how we got to now.' The course introduces architectural and urban ideas by exploring and connecting key directions, works, and texts from the Western tradition. By casting a critical eye on where we've been, the course opens new perspectives on what might be next. The course covers a period ranging from ancient Greece and Rome to the present, with emphasis on how the foundations of Western architecture collided with modernity, and how we've dealt with the hereafters of modernity since the mid-20th century. Recurring themes will include the ways in which architectural theory has defined role of the architect, architecture's foundational principles, and the relationships between architectural and urban ideas, aesthetics, and the cultural contexts in which these ideas develop. Major topics will include ancient architectural theory, Renaissance classicism, tectonics and Gothic rationalism, the Beaux-Arts, Neoclassicism and typology, organicism and functionalism, the Modern avant-garde's radical new social and aesthetic visions, the International Style, countermodernisms, phenomenology, techno-utopianism, populism, gender, race, and international post-colonialism. This course meets the Bachelor of Arts degree requirements for Arts (GA) courses by: expanding knowledge and comprehension of the role of the arts, building competence in analysis, critical thinking and interpretive reasoning through the exploration of creative works; demonstrating the aesthetic, historic, social, and cultural significance of important works of design; and, critically assessing creative works through evaluative processes of analysis and interpretation.
(Adapted from a map published in 1830 by Abel Brown.)Unlike earlier burial grounds in Boston, Mount Auburn Cemetery was founded in 1831 by Bostonians for their use, but it was located about four miles west of the city. It was the country's first large-scale designed landscape open to the public.Questions for Map 11. Locate Boston. What limited the city's ability to expand?2. Find the location of Mount Auburn Cemetery (denoted by a black star) on this map drawn in 1830. Why did Bostonians need a cemetery outside of the city limits?3. From the evidence you see on the map, how is the area where the cemetery is located different from downtown Boston? How might those differences have contributed to the decision to build a cemetery in that location?4. Since the automobile was not invented until the last decade of the 19th century, and a public horse-drawn trolley to Mount Auburn was not established until the 1840s, how might a resident of Boston have traveled to Mount Auburn in the first decade after its founding in 1831?
On the other hand, reclamation of post-mining landscapes is a very challenging task since there is no unique reclamation planning scheme for such landscapes, and it highly depends on the site-specific characteristics. Therefore, successful and sustainable reclamation requires interdisciplinary approach leading to an integrated and effective proposal to restore ecological, hydrological, aesthetic, recreational and other functions of the post-mining landscape. Different methods and approaches for the reclamation of opencast mine sites have been proposed by several disciplines such as landscape architecture, environmental and mining engineering, forestry, archeology and social sciences.
Preservation has traditionally focused on saving prominent buildings of historical or architectural significance. Preserving cultural landscapes-the combined fabric of the natural and man-made environments-is a relatively new and often misunderstood idea among preservationists, but it is of increasing importance. The essays collected in this volume-case studies that include the Little Tokyo neighborhood in Los Angeles, the Cross Bronx Expressway, and a rural island in Puget Sound-underscore how this approach can be fruitfully applied. Together, they make clear that a cultural landscape perspective can be an essential underpinning for all historic preservation projects. 2ff7e9595c
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