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Designing Living Landscapes: Cultural Landscapes as Landscape Architecture

Designing Living Landscapes: Cultural Landscapes as Landscape Architecture Designing Living Landscapes Cultural Landscapes as Landscape Architecture Special Issue Editors Cari Goetcheus, Robin Karson, Ethan Carr CULTUR AL LANDSCAPES AS LANDSCAPE ORIGINS OF CULTUR AL LANDSCAPE RESEARCH IN ARCHITECTURE THE UNITED STATES This special issue spotlights new scholarship about cul- Perspectives on the cultural landscape—its pres- tural landscape research and practice that documents ervation and its relevance to design and planning the continued and vital role of this fi eld in contempo- practice—abound in the writings of the Ameri- rary landscape architecture. The term “cultural land- can landscape architect and planner Charles Eliot scape” was coined by cultural geographers in the 1920s (1859–1897). At age fi fteen, Eliot recorded an 1874 and adopted by landscape architects in the 1980s, but trip through South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida the study and analysis of cultural landscapes have with written and visual impressions of landscapes, been key elements of design practice long before being people, and local customs; a year later he made formally named. Landscape architecture is rooted in detailed notes during a short trip to a manufactur- creative responses to the cultural history and natural ing village, describing a woolen mill, tannery, and processes of the sites in which 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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Designing Living Landscapes Cultural Landscapes as Landscape Architecture Special Issue Editors Cari Goetcheus, Robin Karson, Ethan Carr CULTUR AL LANDSCAPES AS LANDSCAPE ORIGINS OF CULTUR AL LANDSCAPE RESEARCH IN ARCHITECTURE THE UNITED STATES This special issue spotlights new scholarship about cul- Perspectives on the cultural landscape—its pres- tural landscape research and practice that documents ervation and its relevance to design and planning the continued and vital role of this fi eld in contempo- practice—abound in the writings of the Ameri- rary landscape architecture. The term “cultural land- can landscape architect and planner Charles Eliot scape” was coined by cultural geographers in the 1920s (1859–1897). At age fi fteen, Eliot recorded an 1874 and adopted by landscape architects in the 1980s, but trip through South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida the study and analysis of cultural landscapes have with written and visual impressions of landscapes, been key elements of design practice long before being people, and local customs; a year later he made formally named. Landscape architecture is rooted in detailed notes during a short trip to a manufactur- creative responses to the cultural history and natural ing village, describing a woolen mill, tannery, and processes of the sites in which

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Landscape Journal: design, planning, and management of the land – University of Wisconsin Press

Published: Sep 13, 2017

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