Acknowledgements
Preface: How to Read this Book
1. Why Utopia? Why Landscape?
2. Landscapes as Political Media
3. When the Social Order was a Public Question
4. Land, Capital, and Labor
5. Technology
6. Food and Agriculture
7. Leisure
8. Freedom, Cooperation, and Authority
9. History, Nature, Agency and So What Next?
Afterword
Biography
Jody Beck is an associate professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Colorado Denver, USA. His research interests center around the political content of landscape. His first book, John Nolen and the Metropolitan Landscape, covers the political underpinnings of a figure significant to the development of the modern professions of both landscape architecture and city planning. He has also published several works on the importance of food and agricultural production to the politics of landscape.
