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The Working Landscape: Founding, Preservation, and the Politics of Place (Urban and Industrial Environments)
by Peter F. Cannovò
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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 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." Place, Cannavò argues, is not just an object but an essential human practice that involves the physical and conceptual organization of our surroundings into a coherent, enduring landscape. This practice must balance development (which he calls " founding" ) and preservation.
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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 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." Place, Cannavò argues, is not just an object but an essential human practice that involves the physical and conceptual organization of our surroundings into a coherent, enduring landscape. This practice must balance development (which he calls " founding" ) and preservation.
Three case studies illustrate the polarizing development-preservation conflict: the debate over the logging of old-growth forests in the Pacific Northwest; the problem of urban sprawl; and the redevelopment of the former site of the World Trade Center in New York City. Cannavò suggests that regional, democratic governance is the best framework for integrating development and preservation, and he presents specific policy recommendations that aim to create a " working landscape" in rural, suburban, and urban areas. A postscript on the mass exile, displacement, and homelessness caused by Hurricane Katrina considers the implications of future climate change for the practice of place.
Review:
andquot;As our impact on the land increases, we seem to be faced with a dilemma: to continue to found new landscapes and settlements, or to preserve old ones. In this far-reaching book, threaded through with illuminating and challenging case studies, Peter Cannavandograve; shows us what a mistake it is to come down on one side or the other of this debate. Instead he makes a persuasive case for democratic engagement as the route to the effective integration of founding and preservation. This is how to create a truly working landscape.andquot;
andmdash;Andrew Dobson, Professor of Politics, International Relations, and Environment, Keele University
andmdash;Andrew Dobson, Professor of Politics, International Relations, and Environment, Keele University
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andquot;Cannavandograve; captures the multidimensional and contested character of place in recent American struggles and the vital need for a democratic politics able to address this. The Working Landscape demonstrates impressive breadth of scholarship and theoretical sophistication, yet is clearly written, accessible, and engaging.andquot;
andmdash;John M. Meyer, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Government and Politics, Humboldt State University.
andmdash;John M. Meyer, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Government and Politics, Humboldt State University.
Review:
andquot;An excellent book. Peter Cannavandograve; examines a commonly noted dichotomy in environmentalismandmdash;the tension between preservation and developmentandmdash;but approaches it in a completely novel and thoroughly comprehensive way. Cannavandograve; breaks down barriers between political theory, geography, urban design and planning, and sociology by weaving together arguments from all the disciplines in his critique of the preservation/development impasse, creating an academic space many of our colleagues have avoided. This comprehensive interdisciplinary approach is quite successful and is extremely rare in environmental thought.andquot;
andmdash;David Schlosberg, Professor and Chair, Department of Political Science, Northern Arizona University
andmdash;David Schlosberg, Professor and Chair, Department of Political Science, Northern Arizona University
Synopsis:
Place, Cannav? argues, is not just an object but an essential human practice that involves the physical and conceptual organization of our surroundings into a coherent, enduring landscape. This practice must balance development (which he calls founding) and preservation. Three case studies illustrate the polarizing development-preservation conflict: the debate over the logging of old-growth forests in the Pacific Northwest; the problem of urban sprawl; and the redevelopment of the former site of the World Trade Center in New York City. Cannav? suggests that regional, democratic governance is the best framework for integrating development and preservation, and he presents specific policy recommendations that aim to create a working landscape in rural, suburban, and urban areas. A postscript on the mass exile, displacement, and homelessness caused by Hurricane Katrina considers the implications of future climate change for the practice of place.
Synopsis:
Transcending the polarizing debate over development and preservation, an innovative proposal for an alternative theory and practice of place that embraces both change and stability.
About the Author
Peter F. Cannav is Visiting Assistant Professor of Government at Hamilton College.
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780262532921
- Subtitle:
- Founding, Preservation, and the Politics of Place
- Author:
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- Author:
- Author:
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- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- Subject:
- Environmental Conservation & Protection - General
- Subject:
- Public Policy - Regional Planning
- Subject:
- Public Policy - Environmental Policy
- Subject:
- Land use
- Subject:
- Sustainable Development
- Subject:
- Environmental Conservation & Protection
- Copyright:
- 2007
- Edition Description:
- Trade paper
- Series:
- Urban and Industrial Environments
- Publication Date:
- July 2007
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Grade Level:
- Professional and scholarly
- Language:
- English
- Pages:
- 416
- Dimensions:
- 9 x 6 in
