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The Eclipse of Urbanism and the Greening of Public Space: Image Making and the Search for a Commons in the United States, 1682-1865 (2016)

Luccarelli, Mark (Author)

White Horse Press
Publication date: 2016
Language: English

ISBN: 9781874267942

Publication Date: 2016
Physical Details: 258

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Social history Environmental history Urban history Geography Commons (land/resource use) 19th century 18th century 17th century United States

Conceptualising space and re-engaging the common In The Eclipse of Urbanism and the Greening of Public Space: Image Making and the Search for a Commons in the United States, 1682–1865, Mark Luccarelli pushes past unproductive mind/body debates by rooting the rise of environmental awareness in the political and geographical history of the US. Considering history in terms of the categorical development of space – social, territorial and conceptual – the book examines the forces that drove people to ignore their surroundings by distancing culture from place and by assiduously advancing the dissolution of social bonds. Thus beneath the question of the surround, and the key to its renewal today, is the quest to re-engage the common. The latter is still a part of the approach to space, its arrangement and disposition, and has a necessary environmental dimension. Concepts of urbanism, place identity, picturesque landscape and nature are part of a larger Western intellectual and cultural context but, by examining the imaging of cities and landscape, Luccarelli links particular American geographic settings – as well as the political ideals and practices of the republic – to the application and aesthetic reading of these ideas. The advocates of these various perspectives shared an aesthetic orientation as a means of redefining or recovering the common. The book looks at various American urban and regional contexts, as well as the work of artists, writers and public figures, including painter and engraver William Birch, Thomas Jefferson, engraver John Hill, Henry David Thoreau and Frederick Law Olmsted. Luccarelli embeds his environmental study in the works of these men and in the course of American history between the planting of the city of Philadelphia and the establishment of Olmsted’s major urban parks.

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Review Stephen Nepa (April 2018) Review of "The Eclipse of Urbanism and the Greening of Public Space: Image Making and the Search for a Commons in the United States, 1682-1865". Environmental History (pp. 422-424). unapi

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