Landscape and Agency explores how landscape, as an idea, a visual medium and a design practice, is organized, appropriated and framed in the transformation of places, from the local to the global. It highlights how the development of the idea of agency in landscape theory and practice can fundamentally change our engagement with future landscapes. Including a wide range of international contributions, each illustrated chapter investigates the many ways in which the relationship between the ideas and practices of landscape, and social and subjective formations and material processes, are invested with agency. They critically examine the role of landscape in processes of contemporary urban development, environmental debate and political agendas and explore how these relations can be analysed and rethought through a dialogue between theory and practice.
Foreword:
Murray Fraser
Introduction:
Ed Wall and Tim Waterman
Chapter 1: Landscapes of Post-History
Ross Adams
Chapter 2: Reciprocal Landscapes: Material Portraits in New York City and Elsewhere
Jane Hutton
Chapter 3: Agency, Advocacy, Vocabulary: Three Landscape Projects
Jane Wolff
Chapter 4: The Law is at Fault? Landscape Rights and 'Agency' in International Law
Amy Strecker
Chapter 5: How to Live in a Jungle: the (Bio)politics of the Park as Urban Model
Maria Giudici
Chapter 6: Planetary Aesthetics
Peg Rawes
Chapter 7: The Closed Landscapes of Sverdlovsk-44 and Krasnoyarsk-26
Katya Larina
Chapter 8: Rhythm, Agency, Scoring and the City
Paul Cureton
Chapter 9: Publicity and Propriety: Democracy and Manners in Britain's Public Landscape
Tim Waterman
Chapter 10: The Power of the Incremental: Agronomic Investment in Lisbon's Chelas Valley
Jill Desimini
Chapter 11: Post-Landscape or the Potential of Other Relations with the Land
Ed Wall
Chapter 12: Activating Equitable Landscapes and Critical Design Assemblages in Bangkok
Camillo Boano and William Hunter
Chapter 13: Agency and Artifice in the Environment of Neoliberalism
Doug Spencer
Afterword: Landscape's Agency
Don Mitchell
