Landscapes of a New Cultural Economy of Space

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Terkenli, Theano S. (Editor), d'Hauteserre, Anne-Marie (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2006.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Regional planning.; Urban planning.; Landscape architecture.; Social sciences.; Life Sciences.; Life Sciences, general.; Social Sciences, general.; Methodology of the Social Sciences.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.; Landscape Architecture.

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 contem...

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.