Landscape: a common place

I came across this Landscape book in a bookshop in Holt over the Christmas period. It looks intriguing, and has a good chapter on The Fens which quotes Jill Paton Walsh.

It's written by landscape architect Rosamunde Codling.

There's a description of the book here.

"The projects in her book range from a single field in East Anglia to a whole continent. Among many other projects, she worked on a water storage project in the Wash, and the Broad at the University of East Anglia. A childhood fascination with the Antarctic led to studies at the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, culminating in two visits to the continent.

Research work from those visits has been used in the development of internationally agreed conservation standards for the continent.

“Landscape belongs – is common – to us all,” she said. 

“Landscapes are for living in, and many of their components meet our material needs. 

But there is more – landscapes are part of our lives, places where values and emotions co-exist giving us a different form of sustenance not met by other means. 

Exploring links between landscape and history; the portrayal of landscape through art and poetry; landscapes that surprise, I ended with landscapes beyond our own planet.”