This book seeks to contribute to theoretical advances, analytical
approaches and applied studies in the broader inter-disciplinary
field of contemporary landscape transformation research.
The purpose of the book is to tie together various perspectives,
insights and constructions pertaining to contemporary landscapes
and landscape representations from different theoretical and
methodological positions as well as from diverse geographical and
historical contexts in order to elucidate and illustrate processes
of cultural transformation inscribed in space. The unifying theme,
as well as the main goal and prospective contribution of this book,
then, lies in the exploration of these developing forces and
characteristics of the new cultural economy of space in the
contemporary landscape(s). The primary objective of bringing
together in this book geographical perspectives from various
subdisciplinary fields is to examine and discuss ways in which the
complexities of this newly-emerging cultural economy of space are
applied on various sorts of landscapes, i.e. urban and rural
landscapes, landscapes of everyday life, landscapes of tourism and
recreation, postcolonial and hybrid landscapes, landscapes of
economic production, landscapes of the street and of public life,
"national landscapes" and so on. The overarching question, thus,
is: how do these processes work in different geographical contexts
and contribute to place and landscape creation?
Our intention is to create a space for the development of
landscape discourse(s) that accommodate(s) both theory and
empirical findings as well as methodological issues and practical
applications pertaining to the contemporary landscape(s),
byexamining trends, structures, technologies and practices defining
and articulating this new cultural economy of space. Another goal
is to identify and facilitate innovative debate and engagment
between geography and other sciences researching landscape(s). It
is hoped that this endeavor will generate many more questions and
areas of inquiry pointing to new directions currently developing in
the study of landscape(s) than the questions on the basis of which
this task was undertaken here in the first place.
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