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- Title
State Simplifications: Nature, Space and People.
- Authors
Scott, James C.
- Abstract
The author uses the history of scientific forestry as a metaphor for the forms of knowledge and manipulation characteristic of the state and other large institutions with sharply-defined interests. He suggests that by understanding how simplification, legibility and manipulation operate in forest management, the modern state's application of a similar philosophy to urban planning, rural settlement, agriculture and land administration could then be explored. The article also discusses the development of scientific forestry from about 1765 to 1800 in Prussia and Saxony; the value of the cadastral map to the state; and the techniques devised to enhance the legibility of a society to its rulers.
- Subjects
URBAN planning; STATES (Political subdivisions); FORESTS &; forestry; CITIES &; towns; LAND use; AGRICULTURE; FOREST management; CADASTRAL maps; LOCAL government
- Publication
Journal of Political Philosophy, 1995, Vol 3, Issue 3, p191
- ISSN
0963-8016
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-9760.1995.tb00035.x