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Introduction: It’s Still about History

Introduction: It’s Still about History Introduction This Cultural Landscape Special Issue of Landscape Journal consistently emphasizes the design, planning, and management of the past as found in current places across the globe. In other words, this issue makes it clear that preservation practice is but one of many approaches used to analyze and intervene in the cultural landscape. Because cultural landscape practitioners see past and present changes as “the living past,” the outgoing editors of Landscape Journal have selected history as their fi nal topical essay. To clarify our own understanding of the use of history, we offer two short anecdotes. Years ago, when Dan was assigned to teach the “History of Landscape Architecture” to a large class of students at the University of Minnesota, he was confused by a particular attitude expressed by many of his students. Claiming disinterest in the worn ideas of others, their goal was to “make their own history.” This perspective is a deeply entrenched point of view developed in a nation of doers and innovators. Perhaps Henry Ford, the person who put America on wheels, best articulated the progressive vantage: “History is more or less bunk. It is tradition. We don’t want tradition. We want to live http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Landscape Journal: design, planning, and management of the land University of Wisconsin Press

Introduction: It’s Still about History

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Introduction This Cultural Landscape Special Issue of Landscape Journal consistently emphasizes the design, planning, and management of the past as found in current places across the globe. In other words, this issue makes it clear that preservation practice is but one of many approaches used to analyze and intervene in the cultural landscape. Because cultural landscape practitioners see past and present changes as “the living past,” the outgoing editors of Landscape Journal have selected history as their fi nal topical essay. To clarify our own understanding of the use of history, we offer two short anecdotes. Years ago, when Dan was assigned to teach the “History of Landscape Architecture” to a large class of students at the University of Minnesota, he was confused by a particular attitude expressed by many of his students. Claiming disinterest in the worn ideas of others, their goal was to “make their own history.” This perspective is a deeply entrenched point of view developed in a nation of doers and innovators. Perhaps Henry Ford, the person who put America on wheels, best articulated the progressive vantage: “History is more or less bunk. It is tradition. We don’t want tradition. We want to live

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Published: Sep 13, 2016

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