At the Intersection of Expertise and Landscaping: How Technical Advisors Created New Nature
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In this chapter, I argue for understanding landfilling as a blurring of the rural and urban. The chapter follows the connections between environmental planning, waste management, and landscape planning through the plans for a new landfill outside the market town of Kalundborg in Denmark between 1975 and 1979 and its subsequent use and closure. In this example, a landfill was placed in close proximity to a small, rural hamlet. Because landfills after the environmental law counted as a technical site, this designation changed the relation between the site, the municipal authorities, and the villagers. By analysing the process, I show how the lines between what counted as rural and urban were blurred both through material changes to the site and through ideational understandings of what a rural village was.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Environment, Agency, and Technology in Urban Life since c.1750 : Technonatures in the Global North |
Editors | Mikkel Thelle, Mikkel Høghøj |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Publication date | 2024 |
Pages | 195-216 |
Chapter | 9 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-3-031-46953-4 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 978-3-031-46954-1 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2024 |
ID: 387335574