Landscape will provide a stimulating and accessible introduction to the contemporary understandings of this important concept within human geography and related disciplines such as landscape history, cultural studies and cultural anthropology. Following an introduction to notable figures and themes in the landscape tradition, the emphasis of the text is on key writings on the landscape in the last 20-30 years. In doing so, the text develops an understanding of landscape as an ensemble of practices that produce, enact and reflect relations between the natural and cultural, the spatial and the social. Rather than attempting a broad 'overview' of what is a vast and variegated terrain, the text presents a focused and accessible engagement with key writings and theorisations of landscape. To aid the student, vignettes are used to highlight key writers, papers and texts. Annotated further reading and student exercises are also included.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. Landscaping Traditions 3. Ways of Seeing 4. Cultures of Landscape 5. Landscape Phenomenology 6. Prospects for Landscape. Bibliography

Reviews

'This book synthesises earlier ideas and presents current thinking in an accessible form ... an excellent contribution to the theoretical study of landscape' - Brian Short, University of Sussex, UK

'Very well written, very accessible, and easy to read quickly. A pleasure, in fact.' - Richard H. Schein, University of Kentucky, USA

'I found Wylie's Landscape refreshingly clear and jargon-free with examples one could relate to. In sum, the book is extremely well written and very accessible and would make a valuable addition to any personal or institutional library.' Nina J Morris, University of Edinburgh