1st Edition

Landscape Is...! Essays on the Meaning of Landscape

Edited By Gareth Doherty, Charles Waldheim Copyright 2025
358 Pages 109 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

358 Pages 109 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

358 Pages 109 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

Landscape Is...! examines the implicit biases and received meanings of landscape. Following on from the previous publication Is Landscape…? which examined the plural and promiscuous identities of the landscape idea, this companion volume reflects upon the diverse and multiple meanings of landscape as a discipline, profession, and medium. This book is intended for academics, researchers, and... Read more

Foreword: Landscape Is History

Thaïsa Way

Introduction

Gareth Doherty and Charles Waldheim

1. Is Landscape Fieldwork?

Gareth Doherty

2. Is Landscape Capital?

Douglas Spencer

3. Is Landscape Colonial?      

Burcu Yiğit-Turan

4. Is Landscape Empowerment?

Jala Makhzoumi

5. Is Landscape Gendered?   

Sonja Dümpelmann

6. Is Landscape Imperial?      

John E. Crowley

7. Is Landscape Indigenous? 

Ọlátúnjí Adéjùmọ̀

8. Is Landscape Elitist?

Alison Hirsch

9. Is Landscape Just?

Kofi Boone

10. Is Landscape Labor?

Danielle Narae Choi

11. Is Landscape Public?

Ed Wall

12. Is Landscape Queer?

Kate Thomas

13. Is Landscape Collaborative?

Tarna Klitzner

14. Is Landscape Reconciliation?

Ujijji Davis Williams

15. Is Landscape Insurgency?

António Tomás

16. Is Landscape Haunted?

Edward Eigen

17. Is Landscape Language?

Anne Whiston Spirn

18. Is Landscape Human?

Charles Waldheim

Biography

Gareth Doherty is an Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture and Affiliate Faculty in the Department of African and African American Studies at Harvard University.

Charles Waldheim is the John E. Irving Professor of Landscape Architecture and the Director of the Office for Urbanization at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.