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Landscapes of preindustrial urbanism

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Dumbarton Oaks colloquium series in the history of landscape architecture; 41Publication details: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection 2020 Washington, D.C.Description: xi, 314 p.: col. ill. Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN:
  • 9780884024712
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 712.09 L2
Summary: As the world’s population continues to urbanize, the extensive reshaping and ecological transformation of the regions where cities develop have become mainstream concerns. Even the phrase “urban landscape” has evolved from modernist paradox to commonsense category. Yet what exactly does it cover? When did the phenomenon it denotes emerge, and how did it evolve across time and space? Could past dynamics of urban landscapes help reveal their present nature and anticipate future developments? Answers to such questions are far from evident. While industrial pasts and postindustrial transitions of cities and their landscapes seem to be well charted, preindustrial conditions are only starting to be explored in a few, rapidly expanding fields of archaeology, historical geography, and heritage studies. These areas of study have benefited, over the past three decades, from tremendous advances and renewal in technologies, research methods, and conceptual frameworks. As a result, a wealth of knowledge is unearthed and landscapes turn out to be the very stuff of preindustrial urbanism. In fact, a paradigm shift is underway, according to which, during preindustrial times, landscapes and urbanism were formed in reciprocal relation. Landscapes of Preindustrial Urbanism seeks to introduce such a paradigm shift to landscape scholars and designers while offering alternative visions to urban historians and planners. https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780884024712
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Table of content

1. Bridging remote sensing and worldviews: urban landscapes from a preindustrial perspective / Georges Farhat
PART I. EARTHWORKS
2 Space and structure in early Mesopotamian cities / Jason A. Ur
3 Landscape change and ceremonial praxis in medieval Rome - from the Via Triumphalis to the Via Papalis / Hendrik W. Dey
4 What constituted Cahokian urbanism? / Timothy R. Pauketat
PART II. WATERSCAPES
5 Hydraulic landscapes of Roman and Byzantine cities / Jordan Pickett
6 Monsoon landscapes and flexible provisioning in the preindustrial cities of the Indian subcontinent / Monica l. Smith
7 The Phnom Kulen capital - a singular and early case of landscape construction in ancient Cambodia / Jean-Baptiste Chevance
8 The weave of natural and cultural ecology - Ekamrakshetra, the historic temple town of Bhubaneswar, India / Priyaleen Singh
PART III. FORESTRY
9 Xingu garden cities - Amazonian urban landscapes, or what? / Michael Heckenberger
10 "when the king breaks a town he builds another" - politics, slavery, and constructed urban landscapes in tropical West Africa / J. Cameron Monroe

As the world’s population continues to urbanize, the extensive reshaping and ecological transformation of the regions where cities develop have become mainstream concerns. Even the phrase “urban landscape” has evolved from modernist paradox to commonsense category. Yet what exactly does it cover? When did the phenomenon it denotes emerge, and how did it evolve across time and space? Could past dynamics of urban landscapes help reveal their present nature and anticipate future developments?
Answers to such questions are far from evident. While industrial pasts and postindustrial transitions of cities and their landscapes seem to be well charted, preindustrial conditions are only starting to be explored in a few, rapidly expanding fields of archaeology, historical geography, and heritage studies. These areas of study have benefited, over the past three decades, from tremendous advances and renewal in technologies, research methods, and conceptual frameworks. As a result, a wealth of knowledge is unearthed and landscapes turn out to be the very stuff of preindustrial urbanism. In fact, a paradigm shift is underway, according to which, during preindustrial times, landscapes and urbanism were formed in reciprocal relation. Landscapes of Preindustrial Urbanism seeks to introduce such a paradigm shift to landscape scholars and designers while offering alternative visions to urban historians and planners.

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