Walls: Enclosure and Ethics in the Modern Landscape

Thomas Oles

ISBN 10: 022619924X / ISBN 13: 9780226199245

Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 2015

2015. hardcover. Cloth, dj. Minor shelf wear. Else a bright, clean copy. Very Good. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers S77161

Inhaltsangabe:

Stone walls, concrete walls, chain-link walls, border walls: we live in a world of walls. Walls mark sacred space and embody earthly power. They maintain peace and cause war. They enforce separation and create unity. They express identity and build community. Yard to nation, city to self, walls define and dissect our lives. And, for Thomas Oles, it is time to broaden our ideas of what they can—and must—do.

In Walls, Oles shows how our minds and our politics are shaped by–and shape–our divisions in the landscape. He traces the rich array of practices and meanings connected to the making and marking of boundaries across history and prehistory, and he describes how these practices have declined in recent centuries. The consequence, he argues, is all around us in the contemporary landscape, riven by walls shoddy in material and mean in spirit. Yet even today, Oles demonstrates, every wall remains potentially an opening, a stage, that critical place in the landscape where people present themselves and define their obligations to one another. In an evocative epilogue, Oles brings to life a society of productive, intentional, and ethical enclosure—one that will leave readers more hopeful about the divided landscapes of the future.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

Thomas Oles is lecturer in landscape architecture at the University of Edinburgh. He has taught and practiced landscape architecture in the Netherlands, United Kingdom, and United States and is the author of Go with Me: 50 Steps to Landscape Thinking.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Walls: Enclosure and Ethics in the Modern ...
Verlag: University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Used - Very Good
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Schutzumschlag