Rita Hermans is coordinator at CLUE+, the Research Institute for Culture, History and Heritage at the VU University Amsterdam. Jan Kolen is professor of Landscape Archaeology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and director of the research institute CLUE (Research Institute for the Heritage and History of the Cultural Landscape and Urban Environment). Hans Renes is historical geographer at Utrecht University and professor in Heritage and Planning at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

"This rich book offers a way of creating fresh and engaging narratives of our landscapes."' - Graham Fairclough, Bulletin KNOB

• Preface Jan Kolen & Johannes Renes: Landscape Biographies: Key Issues Edward H. Huijbens & Gisli Palsson: The Marsh of Modernity: The Bog in our Brains and Bowels Jan Kolen: Biographies of Biotopes Edward Huijbens & Karl Benediktsson: Automobile Authorship of Landscapes: A Biographical Vignette of Iceland's Interior Mark Gillings and Joshua Pollard: Authenticity, Artifice, and the Druidical Temple of Avebury Ludvig Paphmehl-Dufay: Places that Matter: Megalithic Monuments from a Biographical Perspective Cornelius Holtorf: What Future for the Life-History Approach to Prehistoric Monuments in the Landscape? Michiel Purmer: 'To preserve the terrain in its present state': Authorship and Conservation in the Eerder Achterbroek Protected Landscape Area (the Netherlands) Hanneke Ronnes: The Quiet Authors of an Early Modern Palatial Landscape: Transformation without Reconstruction at King William's Het Loo Jürgen Stoye: Piet Mondrian 'Victory Boogie Woogie' 1942-44: The Painting as Illustration of the Biography of Landscape David Koren: Shanghai: The Biography of a City John de Jong: A Kaleidoscopic Biography of an Ordinary Landscape: Analysis of the Development of the Neighbourhood Buiten Wittevrouwen (Utrecht -the Netherlands) Wim Hupperetz: The Cultural Biography of a Street: Memory, Cultural Heritage, and Historical Notion of the Visserstraat in Breda, the Netherlands (1200-2000) Felix van Veldhoven: Post-Industrial Coal-Mining Landscapes and the Evolution of Mining Memory Rob van der Laarse: Nazi Landscapes, Modernism, and Holocaust Memory Svava Riesto: A Biography for an Emerging Urban District: Discovering Open Spaces in the Former Carlsberg Breweries, Copenhagen Johannes Renes: Layered Landscapes: A Problematic Theme in Historic Landscape Research Helen Sooväli-Sepping: Biographies of Landscape: Locals' Perceptions of Landscape Heritage