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Landscape and Identity at Ladybower Reservoir and Rutland Water

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posted on 2023-06-07, 17:01 authored by Denis Cosgrove, Barbara Roscoe, Simon RycroftSimon Rycroft
Large-scale water control projects have been a major component of environmental engineering and landscape transformation during the twentieth century, creating some of its most characteristic modernist forms. The discourses generated by their design and implementation articulate diverse and often opposing cultural identities. Those surrounding the design and construction of reservoirs at Ladybower (1935-45), in what is now the Peak District National Park, and Rutland Water (1968-76), in England's smallest shire county, give insights into the role of landscape aesthetics and symbolism in the complex negotiations of local and national identity at different moments in the course of twentieth-century modernism in Britain.

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  • Published

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Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers

ISSN

0029-2754

Issue

3

Volume

21

Page range

534-551

Pages

18.0

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  • Geography Publications

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  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2012-02-06

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