Revealing Change in Cultural Landscapes

Catherine Heatherington was awarded her PhD (Landscape) from the University of Sheffield, UK. Her research focuses on people’s responses to landscape change and continuity in developed brownfield sites, with particular emphasis on the implications for practice. She is the author of Reimagining Industrial Sites: Changing Histories and Landscapes (2018), and co-author of A New Naturalism (2005). Catherine is a landscape designer and consultant and is a Fellow of the Society of Garden Designers.

For me, great landscape architecture results from an ongoing philosophical response to time and place. It reflects a culture wrestling with its relationship to nature in all its forms. In her book, Revealing Change in Cultural Landscapes: Material, Spatial and Ecological Considerations Catherine Heatherington explores this issue with great care.This is a probing piece of work where philosophical positions are interrogated, past and possible direction acknowledged and exemplar-built works discussed. But most importantly, the reader is left to form their own conclusion, and, in this way, the door is left open for new possibilities. - Philip Coxall, Chairman, McGregor Coxall

• 1 Introduction 2 Thinking about time and change 3 Contexts of change 4 Experiencing interim landscapes: ephemerality and place-making, Krystallia Kamvasinou 5 Revealing change 6 Cycles, succession – being in the here-and-now 7 Histories – reimagining the past 8 The temporality of memories in an abandoned landscape – Christchurch’s Residential Red Zone, Jacky Bowring 9 Processes – anticipating the future 10 Small imperfections – a case study, Dermot Foley 11 Making sense of change