ABSTRACT

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book presents an article by W. J. T. Mitchell, which he presented at the Chicago session, but which was not included in either of the special issues of Landscape Research. It presents a debt to the people who took on the task of peer reviewing the manuscripts, the conference and seminar participants whose presentations and commentary helped shape the ideas that eventually merged in the papers and the staffs of the research organizations and journals that make such ventures possible. The book provides a product of a collaboration, growing out of the editors’ engagement with the political landscape on two different continents, but not in two different worlds, since the degree of overlap between the articles emanating from the two continents, plus New Zealand, is quite thought provoking.