A HISTORY OF GROVES by Jan Woudstra (Editor), Colin Roth (Editor) ( 9781138674806 )

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A HISTORY OF GROVES

By:

Jan Woudstra (Editor), Colin Roth (Editor)

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Pub. date:

17 August, 2017

Series:

Routledge Research in Landscape and Environmental Design

Pages:

256

Synopsis:

The grove, a grouping of trees, intentionally cultivated or found growing wild, has a long diverse history entwined with human settlement, rural practices and the culture and politics of cities. A grove can be a memorial, a place of learning, a site of poetic retreat and philosophy, or political encampment, a public park or theatre, a place of hidden pleasures, a symbol of a vanished forest ecology, or a place of gods or other spirits. Yet groves are largely absent from our contemporary vocabulary and rarely included in today's landscape practice, whether urban or rural. Groves are both literal and metaphorical manifestations, ways of defining spaces and ecologies in our cultural life. Since they can add meaning to urban forms and ecologies and contribute meaningfully to the significance of place, critical examination is long overdue. The editors have taken care to ensure that the text is accessible to the general reader as well as specialists.

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23 Line drawings, black and white; 55 Halftones, black and white; 78

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