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  title info:
    title: Landscapes of a New Cultural Economy of Space
  name:
    name part: Terkenli, Theano S.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: d'Hauteserre, Anne-Marie.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2006
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: IX, 243 p. online resource.
  abstract: This book seeks to contribute to theoretical advances, analytical approaches and applied studies in the broader inter-disciplinary field of contemporary landscape transformation research. The purpose of the book is to tie together various perspectives, insights and constructions pertaining to contemporary landscapes and landscape representations from different theoretical and methodological positions as well as from diverse geographical and historical contexts in order to elucidate and illustrate processes of cultural transformation inscribed in space. The unifying theme, as well as the main goal and prospective contribution of this book, then, lies in the exploration of these developing forces and characteristics of the new cultural economy of space in the contemporary landscape(s). The primary objective of bringing together in this book geographical perspectives from various subdisciplinary fields is to examine and discuss ways in which the complexities of this newly-emerging cultural economy of space are applied on various sorts of landscapes, i.e. urban and rural landscapes, landscapes of everyday life, landscapes of tourism and recreation, postcolonial and hybrid landscapes, landscapes of economic production, landscapes of the street and of public life, "national landscapes" and so on. The overarching question, thus, is: how do these processes work in different geographical contexts and contribute to place and landscape creation? Our intention is to create a space for the development of landscape discourse(s) that accommodate(s) both theory and empirical findings as well as methodological issues and practical applications pertaining to the contemporary landscape(s), by examining trends, structures, technologies and practices defining and articulating this new cultural economy of space. Another goal is to identify and facilitate innovative debate and engagement between geography and other sciences researching landscape(s). It is hoped that this endeavor will gen…
  table of contents: 1 - Introduction -- Landscapes of A New Cultural Economy of Space: An Introduction -- 2 - Processes of enworldment -- Embodiment and performance in the making of contemporary cultural economies -- Landscapes of scenes: socio-spatial strategies of culturepreneurs in Berlin -- 3 - Processes of unworldment -- Los Angeles and the italian 'Citta diffusa': landscapes of the cultural space economy -- Traveling/writing the unworld with Alexander von Humboldt. -- 4 - Processes of deworldment -- From places to non-places? Landscape and sense of place in the Finnish and Estonian countrysides -- Landscapes of the Tropics: tourism and the new cultural economy in the third world -- 5- Processes of transworldment -- Global Ground Zero: place, landscape and nothingness -- In post-modern technologised landscapes -- Symbolic landscapes of Vieux-Québec -- 6 - Conclusions -- Towards reworldment: conclusions.
  note: edited by Theano S. Terkenli, Anne-Marie d'Hauteserre.
  subject:
    topic: Life sciences
  subject:
    topic: Regional planning
  subject:
    topic: Urban planning
  subject:
    topic: Landscape architecture
  subject:
    topic: Social sciences
  subject:
    topic: Life Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Life Sciences, general
  subject:
    topic: Social Sciences, general
  subject:
    topic: Methodology of the Social Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning
  subject:
    topic: Landscape Architecture
  classification: QH301-705
  classification: 570
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      title: Springer eBooks
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