Preface Jan Kolen & Johannes Renes: Landscape Biographies: Key Issues Edward H. Huijbens & Gisli Palsson: The Marsh of Modernity: The Bog in our Brains and Bowels Jan Kolen: Biographies of Biotopes Edward Huijbens & Karl Benediktsson: Automobile Authorship of Landscapes: A Biographical Vignette of Iceland's Interior Mark Gillings and Joshua Pollard: Authenticity, Artifice, and the Druidical Temple of Avebury Ludvig Paphmehl-Dufay: Places that Matter: Megalithic Monuments from a Biographical Perspective Cornelius Holtorf: What Future for the Life-History Approach to Prehistoric Monuments in the Landscape? Michiel Purmer: 'To preserve the terrain in its present state': Authorship and Conservation in the Eerder Achterbroek Protected Landscape Area (the Netherlands) Hanneke Ronnes: The Quiet Authors of an Early Modern Palatial Landscape: Transformation without Reconstruction at King William's Het Loo Jürgen Stoye: Piet Mondrian 'Victory Boogie Woogie' 1942-44: The Painting as Illustration of the Biography of Landscape David Koren: Shanghai: The Biography of a City John de Jong: A Kaleidoscopic Biography of an Ordinary Landscape: Analysis of the Development of the Neighbourhood Buiten Wittevrouwen (Utrecht -the Netherlands) Wim Hupperetz: The Cultural Biography of a Street: Memory, Cultural Heritage, and Historical Notion of the Visserstraat in Breda, the Netherlands (1200-2000) Felix van Veldhoven: Post-Industrial Coal-Mining Landscapes and the Evolution of Mining Memory Rob van der Laarse: Nazi Landscapes, Modernism, and Holocaust Memory Svava Riesto: A Biography for an Emerging Urban District: Discovering Open Spaces in the Former Carlsberg Breweries, Copenhagen Johannes Renes: Layered Landscapes: A Problematic Theme in Historic Landscape Research Helen Sooväli-Sepping: Biographies of Landscape: Locals' Perceptions of Landscape Heritage.