John Beardsley, editor. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2016. Proceedings of Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture XXXVII, 2013.
An exploration of landscapes created by and for Africans themselves from the pre-colonial era to the present, ranging from monumental ceremonial and urban spaces such as Great Zimbabwe and Djenne to anthropogenic forests, tombs, palaces, and nomadic pathways.
Winner of the 2018 Elisabeth Blair MacDougall Book Award from the Society of Architectural Historians
“This beautifully-produced volume…even if it excludes the northern parts of the continent, is much to be welcomed, extending the range of landscape studies and allowing fascinating intellectual narratives to emerge and to be explored.”
—Jane Carruthers, The Journal of African History, 2017.
