Landscape and Agency: Critical Essays

Landscape and Agency- Front Cover
Landscape and Agency
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of figures
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction: critical concerns of landscape
	Chapters
	Landscape and agency
	References
Chapter 1: Landscapes of post-history
	Supernatural
	Archive
	Divide
	Technology
	Post-history
	Command
	Acknowledgement
	Notes
Chapter 2: Reciprocal landscapes: material portraits in New York City
and elsewhere
	Fox Islands, Maine | Central Park, New York City, 1863
	Ambridge, Pennsylvania | Riverside Park, New York City, 1937
	Para, Brazil | The High Line, New York City, 2009
	Conclusion
	Acknowledgements
	Notes
	References
Chapter 3: Agency, advocacy, vocabulary: three landscape projects
	Three case studies in landscape vocabulary
	Gutter to Gulf: vocabulary for a delta city
	Bay Lexicon: vocabulary for a metropolitan waterfront
	Delta Primer: vocabulary for a resource landscape
	In search of means and methods
	Looking forward
	Notes
	References
Chapter 4: The law is at fault? Landscape rights and ‘agency’ in
international law
	Introduction
	Rights to landscape
	Rights of landscape in Human Rights Courts
	Conclusion
	Notes
Chapter 5: How to live in a jungle: the (bio)politics of the park as
urban model
	I
	II
	III
	Notes
Chapter 6: Planetary aesthetics
	Alien projections
	Non-human ratios
	Notes
	References
Chapter 7: The closed landscapes of Sverdlovsk-44 and Krasnoyarsk-26
	Ideal ‘cities in the city’
	The infrastructure of the ZATO
	Closed and open boundaries
	References
Chapter 8: Rhythm, agency, scoring and the city
	Motation
	RSVP
	Portland
	Summary
	Notes
	References
Chapter 9: Publicity and propriety: democracy and manners in Britain’s
public landscape
	Oxford Circus
	Manners and civil society
	The River Can
	Sidewalk ballet and sidewalk moshing
	Goodge Street
	Landscape, civil society and the common law
	Highway codes
	Notes
	References
Chapter 10: The power of the incremental: agronomic investment in
Lisbon’s Chelas valley
	Plano Urbanização de Chelas
	From quinta to horta to Parque Hortícola
	Plano Verde de Lisboa
	Conclusions: common landscapes and toolkits for mediation
	Acknowledgements
	Notes
	References
	Interviews
Chapter 11: Post-landscape or the potential of other relations with the land
	Inseparable landscapes
	Visuals
	Positions
	Frames
	Post-landscape?
	Notes
	References
Chapter 12: Activating equitable landscapes and critical design assemblages
in Bangkok
	Introduction
	A very brief evolution of Bangkok’s urban landscapes
	CODI and the Baan Mankong
	The emerging agency of the community architect in Thailand
	The agency in Rancière’s political aesthetics
	Awakening people’s energy and voices
	Forging ahead through unpredictable landscapes
	Note
	References
Chapter 13: Agency and artifice in the environment of neoliberalism
	Introduction: the emergence of ‘emergence’
	Biopolitical regulation: from imperial ecology to the stadtlandschaft
	Operators’ manuals
	Environmental Disneyland
	Neoliberalism, design and the artifice of the immediate
	Notes
	References
Afterword: landscape’s agency
	Notes
Index