Landscapes Documents And Maps

Author : Brian K. Roberts
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782974277

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Landscapes, Documents and Maps by Brian K. Roberts Pdf

The last half century has seen many studies of the origin of the English village. As a cross-disciplinary enquiry this book integrates materials from geography, history, economic history, archaeology, place-name studies, anthropology and even church architecture. These provide varied foundations, but the underlying subject matter always engages with landscape studies. Beginning with a rigorous examination of evidence hidden within the surviving village and hamlet plans seen on eighteenth and nineteenth century maps, the first half of the book shows how these can be classified, mapped, analysed and then interpreted as important parts of former medieval landscapes. Many specific case-studies are built into the argument, all being drawn from the author's lifetime work on northern England, and accessible language is employed. From this base, the argument develops, with the objective of integrating landscape studies with the descriptive and analytical practices of history, and drawing these together by using the cartographic methods of historical geography. This foundation leads gently into deeper waters; to the landed estates in which all settlements developed and the farming and social systems of which they were a part; to the land holding arrangements that were integrated into the physical plans, providing methods of sharing out the agricultural resources of arable, meadow, woodland and common grazings; and finally to the social divisions present within a changing society. A wholly new theme is found in the argument that certain types of land tenure were associated with a class of officer, land agent or dreng , who in northern England was often linked with the provision of tenants for new villages. It is clear from the evidence amassed that the deliberate founding of new villages and the establishment of new plans on older sites was taking place in the centuries between about AD 900 and 1250. Finally, the study moves beyond the North of England to review the European roots of planned villages and hamlets, and concludes with a challenging hypothesis about their origin in the whole of England. This provides pointers towards future enquiry.

Author : Andrew Whitworth
Publisher : Facet Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781783304172

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Mapping Information Landscapes by Andrew Whitworth Pdf

Mapping Information Landscapes presents the first in-depth study of the educational implications of the idea of information literacy as ‘the capacity to map and navigate an information landscape’. Written by a leading researcher in the field, it investigates how teachers and learners can use mapping in developing their ability to make informed judgements about information, in specific places and times. Central to the argument is the notion that the geographical and information landscapes are indivisible, and the techniques we use to navigate each are essentially the same. The book presents a history of mapping as a means of representing the world, ranging from the work of medieval mapmakers to the 21st century. Concept and mind mapping are explored, and finally, the notion of discursive mapping: the dialogic process, regardless of whether a graphical map is an outcome. The theoretical framework of the book weaves together the work of authors including Annemaree Lloyd, Christine Bruce, practice theorists such as Theodore Schatzki and the critical geography of David Harvey, an author whose work has not previously been applied to the study of information literacy. The book concludes that keeping information landscapes sustainable and navigable requires attention to how equipment is used to map and organise those landscapes. How we collectively think about and solve problems in the present time inscribes maps and positions them as resources in whatever landscapes we will draw on in the future. Information literacy educators, whether in libraries, other HE courses, high schools or the workplace, will benefit by learning about how mapping – implicitly and explicitly – can be used as a method of teaching IL. The book will also be useful reading for academics and researchers of information literacy and students of library and information science.

Author : Jordan Stanger-Ross
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780228003076

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Landscapes of Injustice by Jordan Stanger-Ross Pdf

In 1942, the Canadian government forced more than 21,000 Japanese Canadians from their homes in British Columbia. They were told to bring only one suitcase each and officials vowed to protect the rest. Instead, Japanese Canadians were dispossessed, all their belongings either stolen or sold. The definitive statement of a major national research partnership, Landscapes of Injustice reinterprets the internment of Japanese Canadians by focusing on the deliberate and permanent destruction of home through the act of dispossession. All forms of property were taken. Families lost heirlooms and everyday possessions. They lost decades of investment and labour. They lost opportunities, neighbourhoods, and communities; they lost retirements, livelihoods, and educations. When Japanese Canadians were finally released from internment in 1949, they had no homes to return to. Asking why and how these events came to pass and charting Japanese Canadians' diverse responses, this book details the implications and legacies of injustice perpetrated under the cover of national security. In Landscapes of Injustice the diverse descendants of dispossession work together to understand what happened. They find that dispossession is not a chapter that closes or a period that neatly ends. It leaves enduring legacies of benefit and harm, shame and silence, and resilience and activism.

Author : Vincent Frank Zelazny,New Brunswick. Department of Natural Resources,New Brunswick. Ecosystem Classification Working Group
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Ecological districts
ISBN : 1553962052

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Our Landscape Heritage by Vincent Frank Zelazny,New Brunswick. Department of Natural Resources,New Brunswick. Ecosystem Classification Working Group Pdf

Our Landscape Heritage provides an overview of the history and ecological makeup of the landscapes of New Brunswick to help ecological seekers starting out with basic knowledge about geology, soils, climate, and vegetation, to better understand why plants and animals are today distributed as they are. Part I outlines the rationale and history of ecological land classification (ELC) in New Brunswick, and presents basic scientific concepts and facts that help the reader to interpret the information that follows. Part II, Portrait of New Brunswick Ecoregions and Ecodistricts presents a detailed look at the variety and distribution of ecosystems across the geographic expanse of New Brunswick. Each of the seven chapters of Part II provides a high level description of the ecoregion, followed by detailed descriptions of each ecodistrict within the ecoregion.--Includes text from document.

Author : Lutz Maicher,Jack Park
Publisher : Springer
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2006-02-15
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540325284

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Charting the Topic Maps Research and Applications Landscape by Lutz Maicher,Jack Park Pdf

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the First International Workshop on Topic Map Research and Applications, held in October 2005. The 17 revised full papers and five revised short papers presented together with one invited lecture were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement from more than 35 submissions. One of the goals of the workshop is to survey and structure the field of topic map research and the emerging topic map technologies.

Author : Ulrike Gehring,Peter Weibel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Europe
ISBN : OCLC:1347431156

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Mapping Spaces by Ulrike Gehring,Peter Weibel Pdf

The ZKM throws new light on 17th century landscape painting. Comparable to modern satellite surveying (GPS), true to scale landscape representation is also indebted to the interdisciplinary exchange of knowledge: the alliance of geodesists, mathematicians, instrument makers and painters. Artists had designed modern surveying systems long before new media drew on images from outer space. The exhibition "Mapping Spaces" examines, for the first time ever on this scale, the influence of early modern guide books in geography, the science of surveying and the construction of fortification on Dutch painting around 1650. The prelude to the project, developed at the University of Trier, is Pieter Snayers' large-format depiction of historical battle scenes, in which maps and landscape paintings are projected over one another so as to document the most recent developments in modern engineering, ballistics and the fortification construction. Over 220 exhibits, among them paintings, surveying instruments, graphics devices, books, maps and globes drawn from the most important collections of works, such as from the Prado (Madrid), the Louvre (Paris), the Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam) or the Kunsthistorischen Museum (Vienna) testify to these new theses in pictorial science. The new mapping of an early modern area of knowledge is accompanied by contemporary works of art that thematize the influence of technological developments on our present-day perception of space.--Museum website.

Author : Simon Bell,Ingrid Herlin,Richard Stiles
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781136646034

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Exploring the Boundaries of Landscape Architecture by Simon Bell,Ingrid Herlin,Richard Stiles Pdf

What have cultural anthropologists, historical geographers, landscape ecologists and environmental artists got in common? Along with eight other disciplines, from domains as diverse as planning and design, the arts and humanities as well as the social and natural sciences, they are all fields of importance to the theory and practice of landscape architecture. In the context of the EU funded LE:NOTRE Project, carried out under the auspices of ECLAS, the European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools, international experts from a wide range of related fields were asked to reflect, each from their own perspective, on the interface between their discipline and landscape architecture. The resulting insights presented in this book represent an important contribution to the development the discipline of landscape architecture, as well as suggesting new ways in which future collaboration can help to create a greater interdisciplinary richness at a time when the awareness of the importance of the landscape is growing across a wide range of disciplines. Exploring the Boundaries of Landscape Architecture is the first systematic attempt to explore the territory at the boundaries of landscape architecture. It addresses academics, professionals and students, not just from landscape architecture but also from its neighbouring discipline, all of whom will benefit from a better understanding their areas of shared interest and the chance to develop a common language with which to converse.

Author : Ioannis N. Vogiatzakis,Theano S. Terkenli,Maria Gabriella Trovato,Nizar Abu-Jaber
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783039217748

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Landscapes in the Eastern Mediterranean between the Future and the Past by Ioannis N. Vogiatzakis,Theano S. Terkenli,Maria Gabriella Trovato,Nizar Abu-Jaber Pdf

Landscapes have long been viewed as ‘multifunctional’, integrating ecological, economic, sociocultural, historical, and aesthetic dimensions. Landscape science and public awareness in Europe have been progressing in leaps and bounds. The challenges involved in landscape-related issues and fields, however, are multiple and refer to landscape stewardship and protection, as well as to the development of comprehensive theoretical and methodological approaches, in tandem with public sensitization and participatory governance and in coordination with appropriate top-down planning and policy instruments. Landscape-scale approaches are fundamental to the understanding of past and present cultural evolution, and are now considered to be an appropriate spatial framework for the analysis of sustainability. Methods and tools of landscape analysis and intervention have also gone a long way since their early development in Europe and the United States. Although significant progress has been made, there remain many issues which are understudied or not investigated at all—at least in a Mediterranean context. This Special Issue addresses the application of landscape theory and practice in the Eastern Mediterranean and mainly, but not exclusively, reports on the outcomes of an international conference held in Jordan, in December 2015, with the title “Landscapes of Eastern Mediterranean: Challenges, Opportunities, Prospects and Accomplishments”. The focus of this Special Issue, landscapes of the Eastern Mediterranean region, thus constitutes a timely area of research interest, not only because these landscapes have so far been understudied, but also as a rich site of strikingly variegated, long-standing multicultural human–environmental interactions. These interactions, resting on and taking shape through millennia of continuity in tradition, have been striving to adapt to technological advances, while currently juggling with manifold and multilayered socioeconomic and climate–environmental crises.

Author : Sandra Bohlinger,Thi Kim Anh Dang,Malgorzata Klatt
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Education
ISBN : 363165751X

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Education Policy: Mapping the Landscape and Scope by Sandra Bohlinger,Thi Kim Anh Dang,Malgorzata Klatt Pdf

The volume addresses education policy in higher education, vocational/professional education and the reform of education systems. Contributions span Africa, America, Asia, Australia and Europe. It helps researchers, policy makers, students and practitioners to understand processes of policy making, its theory, practice and outcomes.

Author : Graham Fairclough,Ingrid Sarlöv Herlin,Carys Swanwick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317621034

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Routledge Handbook of Landscape Character Assessment by Graham Fairclough,Ingrid Sarlöv Herlin,Carys Swanwick Pdf

In this multi-authored book, senior practitioners and researchers offer an international overview of landscape character approaches for those working in research, policy and practice relating to landscape. Over the last three decades, European practice in landscape has moved from a narrow, if relatively straightforward, focus on natural beauty or scenery to a much broader concept of landscape character constructed through human perception, and transcending any of its individual elements. Methods, tools and techniques have been developed to give practical meaning to this idea of landscape character. The two main methods, Landscape Character Assessment (LCA) and Historic Landscape Characterisation (HLC) were applied first in the United Kingdom, but other methods are in use elsewhere in Europe, and beyond, to achieve similar ends. This book explores why different approaches exist, the extent to which disciplinary or cultural specificities in different countries affect approaches to land management and landscape planning, and highlights areas for reciprocal learning and knowledge transfer. Contributors to the book focus on examples of European countries – such as Sweden, Turkey and Portugal – that have adopted and extended UK-style landscape characterisation, but also on countries with their own distinctive approaches that have developed from different conceptual roots, as in Germany, France and the Netherlands. The collection is completed by chapters looking at landscape approaches based on non-European concepts of landscape in North America, Australia and New Zealand. This book has an introductory price of £125/$205 which will last until 3 months after publication - after this time it will revert to £140/$225.

Author : Sharon M. Varey,Graeme J. White
Publisher : University of Chester
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9781908258007

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Landscape History Discoveries in the North West by Sharon M. Varey,Graeme J. White Pdf

From optical remote-sensing technology (lidar) to more traditional forms of landscape analysis and documentary research, this volume brings together the work of both amateur and professional historians and archaeologists, united in their enthusiasm for the landscape of north-west England and north-east Wales.

Author : Ronald C. Blakey,Wayne D. Ranney
Publisher : Springer
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 3319866680

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Ancient Landscapes of Western North America by Ronald C. Blakey,Wayne D. Ranney Pdf

Allow yourself to be taken back into deep geologic time when strange creatures roamed the Earth and Western North America looked completely unlike the modern landscape. Volcanic islands stretched from Mexico to Alaska, most of the Pacific Rim didn’t exist yet, at least not as widespread dry land; terranes drifted from across the Pacific to dock on Western Americas’ shores creating mountains and more volcanic activity. Landscapes were transposed north or south by thousands of kilometers along huge fault systems. Follow these events through paleogeographic maps that look like satellite views of ancient Earth. Accompanying text takes the reader into the science behind these maps and the geologic history that they portray. The maps and text unfold the complex geologic history of the region as never seen before.

Author : David L. Uschold
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Cultural landscapes
ISBN : UCR:31210024881375

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Cultural Landscape Report for Martin Van Buren National Historic Site by David L. Uschold Pdf

Author : Richard Muir
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0750943335

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Be Your Own Landscape Detective by Richard Muir Pdf

Learn how a dazzling array of clues in our everyday landscape, together with maps and documents, can bring the landscape of the past to life.

Author : José Carlos Sánchez-Pardo,Emmet Marron,Maria Crîngaci Țiplic
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781789695427

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Ecclesiastical Landscapes in Medieval Europe: An Archaeological Perspective by José Carlos Sánchez-Pardo,Emmet Marron,Maria Crîngaci Țiplic Pdf

By presenting case studies from across Eastern and Western Medieval Europe, this volume aims to open up a Europe-wide debate on the variety of relations and contexts between ecclesiastical buildings and their surrounding landscapes between the 5th and 15th centuries AD.