The Working Landscape: Founding, Preservation, and the Politics of Place (repost)
The Working Landscape: Founding, Preservation, and the Politics of Place by Peter F. Cannavò
English | July 31, 2007 | ISBN-10: 026203364X, 0262532921 | 416 pages | PDF | 3 MB
English | July 31, 2007 | ISBN-10: 026203364X, 0262532921 | 416 pages | PDF | 3 MB
In America today we see rampant development, unsustainable resource exploitation, and commodification ruin both natural and built landscapes, disconnecting us from our surroundings and threatening our fundamental sense of place. Meanwhile, preservationists often respond with a counterproductive stance that rejects virtually any change in the landscape. In The Working Landscape, Peter Cannavò identifies this zero-sum conflict between development and preservation as a major factor behind our contemporary crisis of place. Cannavò offers practical and theoretical alternatives to this deadlocked, polarized politics of place by proposing an approach that embraces both change and stability and unifies democratic and ecological values, creating a "working landscape."