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SUMMARY:The Idea of Landscape in the Unofficial Countryside. - Alec Scragg
DTSTART:20150512T193000Z
DTEND:20150512T200000Z
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CONTACT:Paulina Rowicka
DESCRIPTION:The need for more homes in England has become a prominent poli
 tical football in the recent election\, where every party agreed we need m
 ore houses but none could agree where to build them. The calls for a 'Brow
 nfield building revolution\,' preferring the containment and densification
  of existing cities continue to create problems of quality and housing cos
 t. On the other hand\, development in the countryside through politically 
 correct 'Garden Cities' face enormous popular backlash from influential lo
 bby groups propagating a myth of the countryside being under constant thre
 at of development\, yet an emphasis on preservation continues to exacerbat
 e issues of affordability and spatial exclusion.  What is portrayed as a s
 imple conflict between pleasant landscape 'green' and bad urban 'grey' nee
 ds to be reinvented through reconsidering how the traditional dichotomy of
  urban and rural could be reconstructed. This dichotomy is an acutely Engl
 ish problem\, formed through policy and planning\, which itself emerged fr
 om a unique culture concerning English land and its representation as land
 scape.In challenging the preconceptions of the English landscape and how w
 e build in it\, we can explore the ways ideas of landscape have shaped the
  way the land itself is controlled and used. In this talk we will therefor
 e explore the almost un-English landscape of Essex. The subsequent specula
 tions will address the question of where to build: Urban\, rural or some s
 pace entirely different?
LOCATION:Senior Palrour\, Gonville &amp\; Caius College
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