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Publicity and propriety: Democracy and manners in Britain's public landscape
No full textThis chapter provides the case for the importance of treating public landscape as space of democratic engagement, and, by extension, of its importance in the moral life of civil society. It argues that manners are the expression of virtues and that as such they are an integral part of shared morality. Design and planning can support or deny ethical encounters in public space. The chapter reviews some ways in which this occurs to provide some useful examples for design that encourages democratic life in a healthy civil society. Democratic public life depends upon a customary compact between citizens; an agreement as to what is proper in a public context. The narrow sidewalks along Goodge Street have filled with tables for swanky cafes, and are more crowded with pedestrians. Individuals, isolated in either the sanitized privately owned public space (POPS) or by a doxic landscape that guides their every move by design, become needier and less empowered, and thus better consumers
For 60 years, the Waterman family has run the only store on North Haven, 12 mile
No full textFor 60 years, the Waterman family has run the only store on North Haven, 12 miles off the coast. Residents recall island history and the store\u27s role as a gathering place. Details
The long time habitat: Recolonization versus Renaturalization
No full textThis paper aims to focus on the forms of the long and slow colonization of territories. Such a colonization is indeed able to trigger virtuous processes of maintenance for the so-called “socio-ecological systems”, in evolving interrelation between the human activities and the environment. This issue is included in the greater theme of the contemporary transformations in rural landscapes, namely in the Mediterranean. As E. Sereni put it in 1961, this transformation has been characterized by a deep semantic layering, producing forms of resilient habitats and high-value inertial. Nowadays, these landscapes are crossed by a deep dichotomy: on one hand the loss of meaning not only physical, of the weaker margins of rurality, in a continuous trend toward uncontrolled re-naturalization and ecological flattening. On the other hand, we could see an interesting phenomenon of a gradual yet unpredictable re-appropriation of these new forms of wilderness. Now the core issue of the long-time construction of landscape has a peculiar standpoint in those contests at the limits of the contemporaneity. As a matter of facts, a prime example is Sardinia, where this dichotomy between re-colonization and re-naturalization takes unusual characters for the contemporary project. Through the explication of transformative processes in the Oddoene Valley, a rural context in Sardinia, this paper tries to relate the catalyst role of the landscape design to the cyclical process of recolonization and re-naturalization. The transformative power of the landscape design would strengthens only by coming to terms with its intrinsic contradiction; such design is, in fact, a temporary act, but intended in accordance with the long time transformation of the same landscape. In other words, the landscape design, seen as further slice over the longue durée of any palimpsest, became a tool that might be valuable only through a deep understanding of the history of the places. Only in this way, the landscape design could become the preferred relational instrument between time and space
Post-landscape or the potential of other relations with the land
No full textHave we reached a post-landscape condition? Have prevailing visual relations between people and land, exemplified by English traditions of pictorial settings, individual perspectives and enclosed properties, reached a conclusion? Has a particular frame of landscape, which Denis Cosgrove describes as a ‘way of seeing’ (1985, 45), come to a close? Conceptions of landscape, that emerged in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century England and that have continued to be reinforced through contemporary architectural representations and designed transformations, package landscapes as scenic backgrounds and frame tracts of land as spatial products. While referring to these dominant relationships with the land, Barbara Bender reminds us that there are many other ways of conceiving of landscapes: ‘when the word “landscape” was coined and used to its most powerful effect, there were, at the same time and the same place, other ways of understanding and relating to the land – other landscapes’ (1993, 2). What she describes as contrasting, and often contradictory, constructs of landscape, defined through individual and societal relations with our environments, have grown and receded in relevance. Landscapes are defined through specific economic, social and spatial contexts. So while dominant pictorial ideas of landscape may endure for some people in countries influenced by Anglo-Saxon traditions, other landscapes are configured through contrasting material, ecological, cultural and symbolic relationships with land. In this chapter I explore two inseparable contemporary London landscapes, Paternoster Square and the Occupy London Stock Exchange (LSX). I question a continuation of these English landscape traditions that embrace: predominantly visual approaches; scenes considered from static positions; and singular perspectives framed as representations and urban spaces, enclosed and transformed through design. Raymond Williams proposes:
It is possible and useful to trace the internal histories of landscape painting, landscape writing, landscape gardening and landscape architecture, but in any final analysis we must relate these histories to the common history of a land and its society. And if we are to understand changes in English attitudes to landscape, in the eighteenth and nineteenth century, this is especially necessary. (Williams, 1973, 120
Do dolphins benefit from nonlinear mathematics when processing their sonar returns?
No full textAn interview with author Tim Leighton about the paper
Opportunities for linking young surveyors across professional surveying member organisations and FIG
No full textITU: the din of recovery
No full textWynne's chapter, ITU: The Din of Recovery, in The Art of Immersive Soundscapes, edited by Ellen Waterman and Pauline Minevich, examines sound in the intensive treatment environment of one of the world's leading centres for heart and lung transplants, where Wynne was artist-in-residence for a year. The accompanying DVD contains ITU, a surround sound video made in collaboration with photographer Tim Wainwright.
Other contributors to the volume include: Andrea Polli, Barry Truax, Hildegard Westerkamp, Darren Copeland, Gabriele Proy
Tim Di Muzio on 'Sabotage'
No full textIn a series of essays published in 2013 and 2014 on capitaspower.com, political economist Tim Di Muzio explored the concept of ‘sabotage’ as it applies to capitalist power. I recently rediscovered these essays and was so impressed by them that I have reposted them here as a single piece.
About the author: Tim Di Muzio is a researcher at the University of Wollongong. He is the author of numerous books, including Debt as power, Carbon capitalism, and The 1% and the Rest of us
1996-1997 Tim Gautreaux
No full textTim Gautreaux is the author of three novels and two earlier short story collections. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Best American Short Stories, The Atlantic, Harper’s, and GQ. After teaching for thirty years at Southeastern Louisiana University, he now lives, with his wife, in Chattanooga, Tennessee. (Photo credit: Randy Bergeron)https://egrove.olemiss.edu/grisham_res/1023/thumbnail.jp
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