Working Landscape Founding, Preservation, and the Politics of Place

Name: Working Landscape Founding, Preservation, and the Politics of Place
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ISBN: 9780262033640

ISBN-10: 026203364X

ISBN-13: 9780262033640

Edition: 2007

Authors: Peter F. Cannavï¿½

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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 Cannavo identifies this zero-sum conflict between development and preservation as a major factor behind our contemporary crisis of place. Cannavo offers practical and theoretical alternatives to this deadlocked, polarized politics of place by proposing an approach that embraces both change and stability and…

Book details

List price: $15.75
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 6/27/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 416
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.518
Language: English

Alice Crary is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research and author of Beyond Moral Judgment.Alice Crary is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research and author of Beyond Moral Judgment.Peter Cannavï¿½ is Associate Professor of Government and Director of the Environmental Studies Program at Hamilton College and the author of The Working Landscape (MIT Press).



Preface and Acknowledgments


Introduction: The Phantom Roads of Utah



Place: Founding and Preservation



The Northwest Timber War



Sprawl



Rebuilding Ground Zero



The Crisis of Place



The Working Landscape



A Policy Agenda


Postscript: Place and the Lessons of Katrina


Notes


Bibliography


Index