Teaching Landscape History

This publication is an important contribution to a global movement of scholarly reflection on how reframing landscape history could unlock new possibilities in teaching and learning about our shared global environmental legacy. Kofi Boone, Distinguished Professor and University Faculty Scholar, NC State University, USA Profound knowledge of landscape history is indispensable for landscape architects. It provides valuable insights into the historical layering and narrative of a place which will inspire users, enlarge societal acceptance and prevents a design which denies the genius loci. This book is an excellent aid for this. Theo Spek, Professor of Landscape History, University of Groningen, The Netherlands Knowing landscape history is fundamental in understanding how the environment has been used, designed and transformed by human society. By bringing together a range of interdisciplinary and transnational understandings in teaching landscape history, this volume challenges historical and shifting perspectives of landscape in relation to race, class, gender, and politics. Catharina Nolin, Professor of Art History, Department of Culture and Aesthetics, Stockholm University, Sweden