Ruptured Landscapes Landscape, Identity and Social Change /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Sooväli-Sepping, Helen (Editor), Reinert, Hugo (Editor), Miles-Watson, Jonathan (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Landscape Series, 19
• Subjects: Geography.; Cultural heritage.; Regional planning.; Urban planning.; Landscape ecology.; Anthropology.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.; Landscape Ecology.; Geography, general.; Cultural Heritage.

This volume breaks new ground in the study of landscapes, both rural and urban. The innovative notion of this landscape collection is rupture. The book explores the ways in which societal, economic and cultural changes are transforming the meanings and understandings of landscapes. The text explores...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction-Ruptured Landscapes
• 2. Caribbean Ruptures-Making Sense of a Demilitarised Beach
• 3. Rupture and Redress-Heaney’s Poetic Landscapes
• 4. The Landscape Concept as Rupture-Extinction and Perspective in a Norwegian Fjord
• 5. Perceiving the townscapes of Kohtla-Järve, Estonia
• 6. Interpreting Sites of Historical Rupture in Post-Soviet Urban Space-The Case of Tallinn, Estonia
• 7. Affect, Rupture and Heritage on Hashima Island, Japan
• 8. Between Landscapes-Migration as Rupture and its Expression in the Landscape
• 9. Ruptured Setomaa-Officialising Space and Cultural Passages
• 10. Ruptured Landscapes, Sacred Spaces and the Stretching of Landscape Capital
• 11. Understanding Ruptured Landscapes.