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In Flights of Imagination, Sonja Dümpelmann follows the evolution of airports from their conceptualization as a landscape and a city to modern-day plans to turn decommissioned airports into public urban parks. The author discusses landscape design and planning activities that were motivated, legitimized, and facilitated by the aerial view. She also shows how viewing the Earth from above redirected attention to bodily experience on the ground and illustrates how design professionals understood the aerial view as simultaneously abstract and experiential, detailed and contextual, harmful and essential. Along the way, Dümpelmann traces this multiple dialectic from the 1920s to the land camouflage activities during World War II, and from the environmental and landscape planning initiatives of the 1960s through today.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50363464581393,"sku":"CIN0813935814VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0813935814.jpg?v=1752316241"},{"product_id":"airport-landscape-book-charles-waldheim-9781934510476","title":"Airport Landscape","description":"Airports have never been more central to the life of cities, yet they have remained relatively peripheral in design discourse. 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The book gathers work from the eponymous exhibition that was held at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, presenting the airport as a site of and for landscape.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50395204157713,"sku":"CIN1934510475G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51673477742865,"sku":"GOR014357628","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1934510475.jpg?v=1752317323"},{"product_id":"cultural-history-of-gardens-in-the-age-of-empire-book-sonja-dmpelmann-9781350009936","title":"A Cultural History of Gardens in the Age of Empire","description":"As much as the nineteenth and early twentieth century gardens and their designs were a product and representation of industrialization and urbanization, they were also motors of change. Gardens became an industry in and of themselves. They were both the last resting places of the dead and cultivated plots for survival. Gardens were therapeutic environments regarded as civilizing, socializing and assimilating institutions, and they were designed and perceived as social landscapes and community playgrounds.   Rich with symbolism, gardens were treated as the subject and the setting for literature and painting and were often considered works of art in themselves. In a time of empire, when plants were drawn from across the globe, gardens also reflected territorial conquest and expansion and they fostered national, regional and local identities.  A Cultural History of Gardens in the Age of Empire presents an overview of the period with essays on issues of design, types of gardens, planting, use and reception, issues of meaning, verbal and visual representation of gardens, and the relationship of gardens to the larger landscape.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":50697442427153,"sku":"NGR9781350009936","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1350009938.jpg?v=1751987254"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-sonja-dmpelmann.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}