College of Architecture and Planning I University of Colorado, Denver
cudenver.edu/cap
For the Los Angeles Urban Rangers' Rocky Mountain debut, Emily Scott presents "Everyday Wastelands and Other Attractions," about artists' and architects' commonplace taste for ugly, mundane, and wasted landscapes. How and why, she asks, have such sites served as a foil, or critical counter-destination, to scenic 'natural' spaces in recent decades? How is history inscribed in the landscape, or does landscape function as a vivid cultural index? How might investigations into our landscape attractions, fantasies, stereotypes, and aversions help us better interpret subtle nuances of history, politics, and culture?
