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Walls: Enclosure and Ethics in the Modern Landscape
Thomas Oles
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Description for Walls: Enclosure and Ethics in the Modern Landscape
Hardcover. Ancient walls, barbed-wire walls, metaphorical walls, political walls: all form, reform, and dissect our world. The author traces the rich array of social practices associated with walls across history, and describes how, at the dawn of the modern era, these practices were pushed aside by new notions of sovereign rights and private property. Num Pages: 232 pages, 40 halftones. BIC Classification: AMV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 237 x 24. Weight in Grams: 490.
Ancient walls, barbed-wire walls, metaphorical walls, political walls: all form, reform, and dissect our world. They mark sacred space and embody earthly power. They maintain peace and cause war. They enforce difference and create unity. Walls are pervasive and potent, and for Thomas Oles, it is time to broaden our ideas of what they can - and should - do. In Walls, ales asserts that our societies and our politics are shaped by - and shape - the divisions we make in and among landscapes. He traces the rich array of social practices associated with walls and other boundary markers ... Read more
Ancient walls, barbed-wire walls, metaphorical walls, political walls: all form, reform, and dissect our world. They mark sacred space and embody earthly power. They maintain peace and cause war. They enforce difference and create unity. Walls are pervasive and potent, and for Thomas Oles, it is time to broaden our ideas of what they can - and should - do. In Walls, ales asserts that our societies and our politics are shaped by - and shape - the divisions we make in and among landscapes. He traces the rich array of social practices associated with walls and other boundary markers ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226199245
SKU
V9780226199245
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99-15
About Thomas Oles
Thomas Oles is assistant professor of landscape architecture at Cornell University. He is the author of Go with Me: 50 Steps to Landscope Thinking.
Reviews for Walls: Enclosure and Ethics in the Modern Landscape
"'Walls is a wide-ranging, cogent, and penetrating analysis of walls and boundaries. There are very few books on walls of any sort and none with this sophistication. It is a pleasure to find an interdisciplinary mind at work in the center of the discipline of landscape architecture." (John R. Stilgoe, Harvard University)"