Social landscapes

Nalini recommended that I read a book called Social Landscapes, but she couldn't remember the author's name. As usual, the Internet doesn't disappoint.

Social Landscape Photography Gerald Davey
Social landscape photography expresses a distinctly personal vision, typically within everyday human environments.

Picturing the Social Landscape: Visual Methods in the Sociological Imagination, by Caroline Knowles and Paul Sweetman
In this collection an international range of experts explain how they have used visual methods in their own research...Contributors explore the following ideas: Self and identity; visualizing domestic space; visualizing urban landscapes; and visualizing social change. Methods covered include photo and video diaries, juxtaposing official and unofficial views, using images as triggers in interview work, working with children through photographs, and combining visual methods with interviews and text based research.

visualdiaries: the social landscape rich-joseph facun
"from rome, virgina, ohio, to new york i have walked and this is what i see," says facun.
the following images are a selection of these observations; a view of urban scenery as seen from a single point.

  
The New Geography: How the Digital Revolution Is Reshaping the American Landscape by Joel Kotkin
Like the postindustrial metropolis, the preindustrial city, existing before the era dominated by mass production of goods and services, flourished by capitalizing on functions--such as cross-cultural trades, the arts, and specialized craft-based production--that could not be adequately performed by the far more numerically superior hinterland.