What is landscape? /
Landscape, John Stilgoe tells us, is a noun. From the old Frisian language (once spoken in coastal parts of the Netherlands and Germany), it meant shoveled land: landschop. Sixteenth-century Englishmen misheard or mispronounced this as landskep, which became landskip, then landscape, designating the...
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Published: | Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2015] Ã2015 |
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