Il senso dell’acqua: una ricerca personale nella storia dell’irrigazione
Wilko Graf von Hardenberg percorre a ritroso i paesaggi della sua infanzia e riflette sulle politiche di gestione delle acque durante gli anni del regime fascista in Italia.
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Making Sense of Water: A Personal Quest into the History of Irrigation
Wilko Graf von Hardenberg discusses the ways water management policies shaped the landscape of his childhood during the years of the Fascist regime in Italy.
Out of the Mountains: Changing Landscapes in Rural China
About this issue
Zhen Wang’s photo essay explores in detail how nearly 40 years of urbanization and rapid economic development have transformed the past, present, and future of the Yi population and of China’s rural and cultural landscapes.
Content
The Emerald City Was Not a Green City
Melosi analyzes the Emerald City in L. Frank Baum’s novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz to highlight how limited perspectives on urban greenness once were.
Castlemaine: Climate Change, Consciousness, and Art
Arcadia, Autumn 2017, no. 30
¡Vivan las Antipodas!
In ¡Vivan las Antipodas!, award-winning documentary filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky visits four rare inhabited regions of the world that are antipodal to other landmasses and creates unexpected images that turn our view of the world upside-down.
The Moo Man
The Moo Man was filmed over four years on the marshes of Sussex, and tells the story of a maverick organic dairy farmer and his small herd of unruly cows.
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac has enthralled generations of nature lovers and conservationists and is indeed revered by everyone seriously interested in protecting the natural world.
"Urban Planning and Multiple Preference Schedules: On R.M. Hare's 'Contrasting Methods in Environmental Planning'"
Roger Paden presents a critical analysis of Hare’s article “Contrasting Methods in Environmental Planning.”
To Make a Farm
The documentary explores the lives of five young people who have decided to become small-scale farmers.