Arcadia Updated: Raising landscape awareness through analytical narratives

Arcadia Updated explores the concept of landscape as shaped by the literary tradition and material works known as pastoral, highlighting how individual perception is a cultural construct. It re-engages with the pastoral tradition to treat landscape as an object of analysis in landscape planning, contributing to the methodological debate concerning landscape character assessment. The book includes 30 black-and-white images and aims to raise landscape awareness as an individual and collective act of imagination. It is beneficial to professional landscape planners, academics, and students of landscape, literature, and cultural studies.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 162 pages
Publication date: 29 August 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Arcadia Updated delves into the concept of landscape, exploring its formation through the literary tradition and material works known as pastoral. By referencing various traditions' works and scholarly critiques, Fiskevold and Geelmuyden emphasize that individual landscape perception is primarily a cultural construct. While each person may perceive a unique landscape based on their personal experiences, the landscape simultaneously represents a tradition of engaging with nature and land, which has largely been forgotten. Through re-engaging and connecting the practice of understanding landscapes with the pastoral tradition, the authors establish a common ground for treating landscape as an object of analysis in landscape planning.

Arcadia Updated contributes to the methodological debate surrounding landscape character assessment. With 30 black-and-white images, this book examines how humans engage with land organically, materially, and communicatively. It aims to raise landscape awareness as both an individual and a collective act of imagination. Analyzing landscapes is an ongoing cultural practice of reinterpreting the land as landscape in response to societal development and technical progress. The landscape analyst's role is to interpret the contemporary world and offer visual explanations of it.

This book is valuable for professional landscape planners, academics, and students of landscape, literature, and cultural studies. It makes an essential contribution to the cross-disciplinarity of the landscape discourse.

Weight: 280g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032401775