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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Virginia Press
ISBN-100813935814
ISBN-139780813935812
eBay Product ID (ePID)175278878
Product Key Features
Number of Pages368 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameFlights of Imagination : Aviation, Landscape, Design
SubjectLandscape, Aviation / Commercial, Subjects & Themes / Aerial, Public Policy / Regional Planning
Publication Year2014
TypeTextbook
AuthorSonja Dümpelmann
Subject AreaTransportation, Political Science, Architecture, Photography
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight31 Oz
Item Length10.6 in
Item Width7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2014-003955
ReviewsThis book is unique in examining the aerial view and airports themselves from the perspective of landscape history and environmental design. It addresses a significant turn in culture: flight changed our perspectives on the world, then transformed our imaginations, and finally changed the landscape itself and the ways we inhabit it. Excellent, and a real contribution to the field., She (Dumpelmann) has produced a well-written and imaginative book that in its interrogation of landscape and structures as seen from the air is both surprising and esoteric. Have no doubt, Dumpelmann is an academic writer and this is an academic read, but the book is accessible to a general audience., The strength of Flights of Imagination resides in its ability to broaden the disciplinary scope of landscape design.Dumpelmann develops a nuanced phenomenological perception of landscape ecology, one in which the hybrid of the disembodied aerial eye and the experiential body presents a fresh way of understanding landscape.... The book broaden[s] our understanding of aviation's complex relationship to histories of visuality, architecture and landscape architecture, transnational mobility, globalization, and urbanization... [and] offer[s] helpful insights into the nature of our modern world., The strength of Flights of Imagination resides in its ability to broaden the disciplinary scope of landscape design. Dumpelmann develops a nuanced phenomenological perception of landscape ecology, one in which the hybrid of the disembodied aerial eye and the experiential body presents a fresh way of understanding landscape.... The book broaden[s] our understanding of aviation's complex relationship to histories of visuality, architecture and landscape architecture, transnational mobility, globalization, and urbanization... [and] offer[s] helpful insights into the nature of our modern world.
Dewey Edition23
Grade FromCollege Graduate Student
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal711/.78
SynopsisIn much the same way that views of the earth from the Apollo missions in the late 1960s and early 1970s led indirectly to the inauguration of Earth Day and the modern environmental movement, the dawn of aviation ushered in a radically new way for architects, landscape designers, urban planners, geographers, and archaeologists to look at cities and landscapes. As icons of modernity, airports facilitated the development of a global economy during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, reshaping the way people thought about the world around them. Professionals of the built environment awoke to the possibilities offered by the airports themselves as sites of design and by the electrifying new aerial perspective on landscape. In Flights of Imagination, Sonja Dümpelmann follows the evolution of airports from their conceptualization as landscapes and cities to modern-day plans to turn decommissioned airports into public urban parks. The author discusses landscape design and planning activities that were motivated, legitimized, and facilitated by the aerial view. She also shows how viewing the earth from above redirected attention to bodily experience on the ground and illustrates how design professionals understood the aerial view as simultaneously abstract and experiential, detailed and contextual, harmful and essential. Along the way, Dümpelmann traces this multiple dialectic from the 1920s to the land-camouflage activities during World War II, and from the environmental and landscape planning initiatives of the 1960s through today., In much the same way that views of the earth from the Apollo missions in the late 1960s and early 1970s led indirectly to the inauguration of Earth Day and the modern environmental movement, the dawn of aviation ushered in a radically new way for architects, landscape designers, urban planners, geographers, and archaeologists to look at cities and landscapes. As icons of modernity, airports facilitated the development of a global economy during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, reshaping the way people thought about the world around them. Professionals of the built environment awoke to the possibilities offered by the airports themselves as sites of design and by the electrifying new aerial perspective on landscape. In Flights of Imagination, Sonja D mpelmann follows the evolution of airports from their conceptualization as landscapes and cities to modern-day plans to turn decommissioned airports into public urban parks. The author discusses landscape design and planning activities that were motivated, legitimized, and facilitated by the aerial view. She also shows how viewing the earth from above redirected attention to bodily experience on the ground and illustrates how design professionals understood the aerial view as simultaneously abstract and experiential, detailed and contextual, harmful and essential. Along the way, D mpelmann traces this multiple dialectic from the 1920s to the land-camouflage activities during World War II, and from the environmental and landscape planning initiatives of the 1960s through today., As icons of modernity, airports facilitated the development of a global economy during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, reshaping the way people thought about the world around them. In Flights of Imagination, Sonja Dümpelmann follows the evolution of airports from their conceptualization as a landscape and a city to modern-day plans to turn decommissioned airports into public urban parks.
LC Classification NumberTL725.3.L6D86 2014
