Seasonality is so obvious that we very often forget about it when doing landscape research. Seasonality is the interface where humans and nature really interact. Seasonality is expressed both in the natural rhythms of the landscape as well as in human lifestyles. Seasonality creates varying patterns of use and appears in spatial practices, paintings, human behaviour. Also, seasonality itself changes together with societal changes - in agricultural societies, summer used to be the working season and winter the resting one; now we are more and more used to summer holidays.

Landscapes are seasonal both in terms of time and space, the boundaries between seasons are celebrated - do different seasonalities influence also our mindsets? In most cases we talk about (and paint and study) summer landscapes, but there are more than that. There are times with less light, less leaves on the trees to influence visibility, times when moist or snow make places inaccessible. Should seasonality be taken into account in planning, and if yes, then how?

This book studies seasonal landscape in Scandinavia and Brazil, on the Aegean islands and in European mountains, in agriculture tourism, in cities and in the countryside.

Inhalt

Seasonality and Landscapes.- Seasonality and Landscape Exploration in Northern Europe: An Introductory.- Seasonality in Brazil: Rain, Mud and Drought.- Seasonality in European Mountain Areas: A Study in Human Ecology.- Seasonality of Agricultural Landscapes: Reading Time and Place by Colours and Shapes.- Island Lifestyles in the Aegean Islands, Greece: Heaven in Summer, Hell in Winter?.- Seasonality of Second-Home Use in Denmark.- Landscape, Seasonality, and Tourism: A Survey with Examples from Central Europe.- From Experiential to Chronometric Seasonality - the Establishment of Seasons as a National Symbol in Modern Japan.- Seasonality, Rhythms and Post-Postmodern Everyday Urban Landscapes.