Landscape and Power in Vienna

✍ Scribed by Robert Rotenberg

Publisher: Johns Hopkins UP
Year: 1995
Tongue: English
Leaves: 414
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Each of the groups that has held political power in Vienna over the past three centuries has left its mark on the city's history, institutions, and architecture. In Landscape and Power in Vienna, Robert Rotenberg shows how such groups--monarchists and republicans, fascists and socialists--also influenced another, equally vital aspect of urban identity in this central European metropolis: the landscape. Working as both a historian and an ethnographer, Rotenberg examines the relationship among human experience, landscape design, and the ideas that design was meant to represent. Understanding this relationship, Rotenberg explains, makes it possible to examine a Viennese garden today and deduce the ideology of those who planted it.

From "Gardens of Order" and "Gardens of Liberty," to "Gardens of Reaction" and "Gardens of Renewal," the chapters of Landscape and Power in Vienna show how leaders and citizens shared ideas about landscape emerge in the kinds of gardens they produce. "Landscape itself is a language," Rotenberg concludes. "People learn the meanings of landscape in a city from the landscape itself."

✦ Table of Contents

Title Page
Copyright
List of Illustrations
Preface and Acknowledgments
Notes on the Text
Introduction: The Cultural Meaning of Landscape
1. The Making of the Viennese Landscape
2. Gardens of Order
3. Gardens of Liberty
4. Gardens of Domesticity
5. Gardens of Pleasure
6. Gardens of Reform
7. Gardens of Reaction
8. Gardens of Refuge
9. Gardens of Renewal
10. Gardens of Discovery
Conclusion: Landscape and Metropolitan Knowledge
Notes
References
Index

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