 | Routes, Roads and Landscapes Subjects: Built Environment; Economics Finance Business & Industry; Environment and Sustainability; Geography; Social Sciences; Architecture; Environmental Studies; Landscape; Planning; Industry & Industrial Studies; Human Geography; Sociology & Social Policy; Gardens and Designed Landscapes; City and Urban Planning; Transport Industries; Cultural Geography; Race & Ethnic Studies; Routes and roads make their way into and across the landscape, defining it as landscape and making it accessible for many kinds of uses and perceptions. Bringing together outstanding scholars from cultural history, geography, philosophy, and a host of other disciplines, this collection examines the complex entanglement between routes and landscapes. It traces the changing conceptions of the landscape from the Enlightenment to the present day, looking at how movement has been facilitated, imagined and represented and how such movement, in turn, has conditioned understandings of the landscape. A particular focus is on the modern transportation landscape as it came into being with the canal, the railway, and the automobile. These modes of transport have had a profound impact on the perception and conceptualization of the modern landscape, a relationship investigated in detail by authors such as Gernot Böhme, Sarah Bonnemaison, Tim Cresswell, Finola O'Kane, Charlotte Klonk, Peter Merriman, Christine Macy, David Nye, Vittoria Di Palma, Charles Withers, and Thomas Zeller. Brita Brenna, Associate Professor, University of Oslo, Norway, Beate Elvebakk, Senior Researcher, Norwegian Institute of Transport Economics, Norway, Mari Hvattum, Professor, Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Norway and Janike Kampevold Larsen, Post Doc, Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Norway |
