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Article: Sites unseen: landscape and vision.(Book review)
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- Journal of Cultural Geography
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- June 1, 2008
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Sites unseen: landscape and vision, by Dianne Harris and D. Fairchild Ruggles, eds., Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007, xv + 318 pp., $26.95 (paperback), ISBN: 978-0-8229-5959-5
Sites unseen may do for the discipline of landscape architecture what Iconography ... (1989) did for cultural geography, that is make visual theory and culture important contexts for the critical analysis of landscape. It might surprise some that landscape architecture is still negotiating the initial theoretical and cultural turn that human geography has already passed through. But one must consider that the primary function and aim of this discipline is to train students ...