Cosgrove, Denis (Edmund)

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COSGROVE, Denis (Edmund)

COSGROVE, Denis (Edmund). British, b. 1948. Genres: Geography, Horticulture. Career: Oxford Polytechnic, Oxford, England, lecturer, 1972-75, senior lecturer, 1975-79, principal lecturer in geography, 1979-80; Lough-borough University of Technology, England, lecturer, 1980-84, senior lecturer, 1984-88, reader in cultural geography, 1988-93; University of London, Royal Holloway College, England, professor of human geography, 1994-99; University of California, Los Angeles, Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Geography, 2000-. Landscape Research Group Ltd., director, 1980-87. Visiting professor/lecturer at colleges and universities worldwide. Publications: Social Formation and Symbolic Landscape, 1984; The Palladian Landscape: Geographical Change and Its Cultural Representations in Sixteenth-Century Italy, 1993; Mappings, 1999; Apollo's Eye: A Cartographic Genealogy of the Globe in the Western Imagination. EDITOR & CONTRIBUTOR: (with S.J. Daniels) The Iconography of Landscape: Essays on the Symbolic Representation, Design, and Use of Past Environments, 1988; (with G.E. Petts) Water, Engineering, and Landscape: Water Control and Landscape Transformation in the Modern Period, 1990. Contributor to books. Contributor of articles and reviews to geography and education journals. Address: Dept Of Geography, 1170 Bunche Hall, University of California, Los Angeles, 405 Hilgard Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90095, U.S.A. Online address: [email protected]