TELLING A LANDSCAPE STORY ONLINE

In landscape architecture schools, my readers, there may be some students, born recently enough, to have no first hand recollection of:

1. The glorious art and architecture of early 20th century USSR in the mis-guided revolution afterglow;

2. The life-energy sapping disgrace to humanity that was state sponsored socialism; or,

3. The 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster.

There is a meaningful pictorial essay at Angelfire  that wraps all three above into a 2004 motorcycle trip through the Chernobyl landscape.

I recommend it because it is about the sociology of the relationships between people and the landscape. The writing and photos ask the reader to look at questions of meaning in the landscape.

Edward Flaherty

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