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Riesto’s A Biography of an Industrial Landscape provides a detailed narration of the social and physical transformation of the Carlsberg Breweries site in Copenhagen, Denmark. The study follows the redevelopment of the site following the relocation of Carlsberg’s operations to a new location. Riesto’s work documents this process beginning while the factory was still in use, through a redevelopment design competition, and to the selection and early implementation of the winning design entry. Although Riesto outlines the creation of the site by tracing its history back to the 17th century, she pays particular attention to the site’s post-World War II industrial urban landscape and the open spaces within this landscape–spaces that link structures and which are often overlooked as industrial heritage in themselves. This perspective fills a vitally important gap in the current literature on industrial landscapes. The use of a landscape biography approach that blends current critical perspectives on redevelopment with a multifaceted history of the site situates this work within the growing field of heritage landscape studies. The book identifies the site as an example of the “paradigm of transformation,” as workers, design consultants, city officials, members of the local community, and others all provide different interpretations of the site’s heritage resources that subsequently impact the final redevelopment plan in various ways and to varying extents1. The study begins with a discussion of previous theoretical conceptualizations of urban landscapes in order to situate Riesto’s landscape biography approach within a longer tradition of landscape theory. Riesto draws particularly on the work of Sébastien Marot for framing her approach to the Carlsberg Breweries site open spaces. Marot’s conception of landscapes as dialectical entities that are continually in flux through the interactions of people and sites is nicely adapted to the open industrial spaces that Riesto seeks to describe. This framework establishes a means of illuminating the constant invention of the landscape that, when paired with the landscape biography approach, provides a long-view of the changes people have made to natural and built landscapes and the intentionality behind those changes. After presenting the theoretical discussion, Chapters 2, 3, and 4 explore the study’s central evidence and arguments. Each chapter is used to assess a different aspect of the Carlsberg Breweries landscape and how different aspects of the landscape were brought into being and are now reimagined through the redevelopment process. Chapter 2 introduces the site of the Carlsberg Breweries, including its history and the modern efforts undertaken to define the breweries landscape. Riesto begins with the property’s history starting in the late 17th century and examines how the area was re-shaped physically throughout the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. The chapter also examines the social motivations for these changes, such as attempts to maintain social order via the built environment, which helps connect the built environment to larger social movements. Within this history, Riesto emphasizes the role that physical spaces, especially gardens, played in the social landscape. This social and architectural history provides a backdrop for the study’s discussion of heritage designations at the site. Riesto utilizes the design competition submissions to discuss the definitions and boundaries of the site, highlighting especially the impact that perceptions of the site’s boundary can have on the framing of the Carlsberg Breweries site as urban heritage. The site’s spaces, defined here in a broad sense, are presented in Chapter 3. The chapter contains multiple standalone concepts that fall loosely under the heading of ‘space’, including a review of the design competition entries’ and municipal plan’s treatment of key spaces, a discussion of the ways that the physical features shaped and were shaped/reshaped by industrial needs over time, a glimpse of the creation of vernacular social

Svava Riesto, Biography of an Industrial Landscape: Carlsberg’s Urban Spaces Retold. Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, 2018. 201 pp., 88 figs.