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In the papers collected in this, the first volume of the Spatial Practices series, Englishness is reflected in the spaces it occupies or dwells in. Broadly influenced by a renewed and growing interest in questions of cultural identity, its emergence in Victorian theories and fictions of nationality, and the new cultural geography, the papers cover a rich variety of spaces and places which have been appropriated for cultural meanings: the rural countryside and farmland of the Home Counties in the early nineteenth century as Arcadian idyll in Cobbett, as the land to die for in war propaganda, an

Cultural landscapes --- Landscapes --- National characteristics, English. --- Symbolic aspects --- England --- Historical geography. --- English national characteristics --- Countryside --- Landscape --- Natural scenery --- Scenery --- Scenic landscapes --- Nature --- Cultural geography --- Landscape archaeology --- Paysage --- Caractère national anglais --- Grande-Bretagne --- Aspect symbolique --- Géographie historique

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This Vast Book of Nature is a careful, engaging, accessible, and wide-ranging account of the ways in which the White Mountains of northern New Hampshire---and, by implication, other wild places---have been written into being by different visitors, residents, and developers from the post-Revolutionary era to the days of high tourism at the beginning of the twentieth century. Drawing on tourist brochures, travel accounts, pictorial representations, fiction and poetry, local histories, journals, and newspapers, Pavel Cenkl gauges how Americans have arranged space for political and economic purpos

Landscapes --- Natural history --- Landscapes in literature. --- Tourism --- Historiography. --- History. --- White Mountains (N.H. and Me.) --- Environmental conditions --- Description and travel. --- Holiday industry --- Operators, Tour (Industry) --- Tour operators (Industry) --- Tourism industry --- Tourism operators (Industry) --- Tourist industry --- Tourist trade --- Tourist traffic --- Travel industry --- Visitor industry --- Landscape in literature --- History, Natural --- Natural science --- Physiophilosophy --- Countryside --- Landscape --- Natural scenery --- Scenery --- Scenic landscapes --- Economic aspects --- Service industries --- National tourism organizations --- Travel --- Biology --- Science --- Nature

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An examination of the role of landscape and cultural identity in the music of Edvard Grieg. Grieg's music is examined in its relation to landscape and national identity. Grimley demonstrates how competing musical discourses contribute to a body of work more challenging and complex than their popular appeal might suggest. While Grieg's music continues to enjoy a prominent place in the concert hall and recording catalogues, it has yet to attract sustained analytical attention in Anglo-American scholarship. Daniel Grimley examines the role which music and landscape played in the formation of Norwegian cultural identity in the nineteenth century, and the function that landscape has performed in Grieg's work. It presents new perspectives on the relationships between music, landscape and identity. This tension between competing musical discourses - the folklorist, the nationalist and the modernist - offers one of the most vivid narratives in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century music, and suggests that Grieg is a more complex and challenging historical figure than his critical reception has often appeared to suggest. It is through the contested category of landscape, this book argues, that these tensions can be contextualised and ultimately resolved.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.). --- Landscape. --- Landscapes. --- Music --- National characteristics, Norwegian. --- Social aspects --- History --- Grieg, Edvard, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Influence. --- Norwegian national characteristics --- Art music --- Art music, Western --- Classical music --- Musical compositions --- Musical works --- Serious music --- Western art music --- Western music (Western countries) --- Nature --- Countryside --- Landscape --- Natural scenery --- Scenery --- Scenic landscapes --- Grig, Edvard, --- Hrih, E., --- Grieg, Edward, --- Grieg, Edvard Hagerup, --- Folklorist. --- Grieg's Work. --- Grieg. --- Modernist. --- Music and Landscape. --- Music. --- Nationalist. --- Nineteenth Century. --- Norwegian Cultural Identity. --- Norwegian Identity.

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soil science --- soil hydrology --- irrigation --- drainage --- soil erosion --- Soils --- Soil science --- Water conservation --- Landscape protection --- Research --- Landscape protection. --- Soil science. --- Soils. --- Research. --- Beautification of the landscape --- Conservation of landscapes --- Conservation of scenic beauty --- Conservation of scenic resources --- Landscape --- Natural beauty conservation --- Preservation of natural scenery --- Preservation of scenic resources --- Protection of landscapes --- Protection of scenic beauty --- Protection of scenic resources --- Scenery preservation --- Environmental protection --- Nature conservation --- Environmentally sensitive areas --- Landscape assessment --- Regional planning --- Conservation of water --- Water --- Conservation of natural resources --- Conservation --- Protection --- Research, Industrial --- Earth (Soils) --- Mold, Vegetable --- Mould, Vegetable --- Soil --- Vegetable mold --- Agricultural resources --- Plant growing media --- Regolith --- Land capability for agriculture --- Pedology (Soil science) --- Agriculture --- Earth sciences --- Agriculture. Animal husbandry. Hunting. Fishery

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'Sufi City: Urban Design and Archetypes in Touba' is a geographical study of the modern Muslim holy city of Touba in Senegal, capital of the Mouride Sufi order. Touba was founded in 1887 by a Sufi shaykh in a moment of mystic illumination. Since the death of the founder in 1927, the Mouride order has designed and built the entire city. Touba is named for Tûbâ, the 'Tree of Paradise' of Islamic tradition. This archetypal tree articulates Islamic conceptions of righteous life on earth, divine judgment, and access to the Hereafter; the city of Touba actualizes this spiritual construct. Important aspects of its configuration, such as the vertical and horizontal alignment of its monumental central shrine complex, its radiating avenues and encircling ring roads, and the actual trees that mark its landscape relate directly to the archetypal tree of Sufi theosophy. The relationship between the spiritual archetype and its earthly actualization as a city is explained by recourse to Sufi methodology. The book employs a semiotic analysis of urban form, cartography, hermeneutics, field investigation and analysis of satellite imagery in order to relate contemporary urban design issues to overarching metaphysical concepts. 'Sufi City' also explores the history of urban networks in Senegal since the emergence of autonomous Muslim towns in the seventeenth century. Finally, the layout of Senegal's modern Sufi cities is related to the monumental palaver trees that marked that country's historic settlements. Eric S. Ross is a cultural and urban geographer who holds a degree in Islamic Studies. Since 1998 he has been assistant professor of Geography at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco. Apart from research on Sufi orders and Muslim towns in Senegal, he has studied cultural tourism and urban planning in Morocco.

Sufism --- Landscapes --- Symbolism in architecture --- City and town life --- City planning --- Landscape architecture --- Islamic cities and towns --- Soufisme --- Paysages --- Symbolisme en architecture --- Vie urbaine --- Urbanisme --- Architecture du paysage --- Villes islamiques --- Social aspects --- Case studies. --- Aspect social --- Etudes de cas --- Touba (Senegal) --- Touba (Diourbel, Sénégal) --- Geography. --- Géographie --- Landscape --- -City planning --- -711.4 --- 712.2 --- Cities and towns --- Civic planning --- Land use, Urban --- Model cities --- Redevelopment, Urban --- Slum clearance --- Town planning --- Urban design --- Urban development --- Urban planning --- Land use --- Planning --- Art, Municipal --- Civic improvement --- Regional planning --- Urban policy --- Urban renewal --- City life --- Town life --- Urban life --- Sociology, Urban --- Countryside --- Natural scenery --- Scenery --- Scenic landscapes --- Nature --- Sofism --- Mysticism --- Gemeentelijke planologie. Stadsplanning. Stedenbouw --- Planologie van landschappen--(algemeen) --- Government policy --- Management --- Islam --- 712.2 Planologie van landschappen--(algemeen) --- 711.4 Gemeentelijke planologie. Stadsplanning. Stedenbouw --- Touba (Diourbel, Sénégal) --- Géographie --- 711.4 --- Architectural symbolism --- Signs and symbols in architecture --- Architecture --- Horticultural service industry --- Landscape gardening --- Landscaping industry --- Cities and towns, Islamic --- Muslim cities and towns --- Archetypal tree. --- Senegal. --- Sufi city. --- Touba. --- Urban design.