Seasonal Landscapes

About this book

Seasonality is so obvious that we very often forget about it when doing landscape research. Seasonality is the interface where humans and nature really interact. Seasonality is expressed both in the natural rhythms of the landscape as well as in human lifestyles. Seasonality creates varying patterns of use and appears in spatial practices, paintings, human behaviour. Also, seasonality itself changes together with societal changes - in agricultural societies, summer used to be the working season and winter the resting one; now we are more and more used to summer holidays.

Landscapes are seasonal both in terms of time and space, the boundaries between seasons are celebrated - do different seasonalities influence also our mindsets? In most cases we talk about (and paint and study) summer landscapes, but there are more than that. There are times with less light, less leaves on the trees to influence visibility, times when moist or snow make places inaccessible. Should seasonality be taken into account in planning, and if yes, then how?

This book studies seasonal landscape in Scandinavia and Brazil, on the Aegean islands and in European mountains, in agriculture tourism, in cities and in the countryside.

Contents

1. Introduction; H. Palang et al.- 2. Seasonal landscapes in Northern Europe; M. Jones.- 3. Seasonality in Brazilian tropics; P. Claval, I. Aguiar de Freitas.- 4. Seasonality in European mountain areas: a study in human ecology; R. Dodgshon et al.- 5. Seasonality of agricultural landscapes: Reading time and place by colours and shapes; D.J. Stobbelaar, K. Hendriks.- 6. Island lifestyles in the Aegean Islands, Greece: Heaven in summer, hell in winter; T. Kizos.- 7. Seasonality of second-home use in Denmark; G. Tress.- 8. Landscape, seasonality, and tourism - Examples from Central Europe; K.P. Schumacher et al.- 9. Seasonality, rhythms and everyday urban landscapes. a performative approach; J.S. Jauhiainen.-

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