Abstract

Landscape was a central concept when geography began as a modern scholarly discipline during the nineteenth century, but within twentieth-century mainstream Anglophone geography it was peripheralized by the narrowing of the field to a science of space. This weakened the unity of geography as a discipline concerned with the historically developing relationship between society, nature and place, as expressed in the phenomena of landscape, which was vital to the integration of physical and cultural geography. An overview of some of the dominant schools of landscape studies illustrates how each of these schools represent significant shifts in understanding of what the landscape is and its place in geographical discourse.

Published in

Title: International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment and Technology
ISBN: 9780470659632, eISBN: 9781118786352
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

SLU Authors

• Olwig, Kenneth

  • Department of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

UKÄ Subject classification

Landscape Architecture
Human Geography


Publication identifier

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118786352.wbieg0794.pub2

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/121289