"Places of Power" contributes to the Landscape Architecture Foundation's Landscape Futures Initiative, which explores driving forces of landscape change that societies and designers will face in the 21st century.

Examines political economy and landscape change in ways that build upon but go beyond research on the political economy of environmental change

Landscapes of Struggle, Possibility and Prosperity.- Introduction: Three Faces of Power in Landscape Change.- New Axioms for Reading the Landscape: Paying Attention to Political Economy and Social Justice.- Landscapes of Possibility? Livelihood and Intervention in the Production of Andean Landscapes.- Moving to the Mountains: Amenity Migration in the Sierra and Southern Appalachian Mountains.- Political and Economic Driving Forces of Landscape Change.- Constructing the Politics of Landscape Change.- Institutional Dynamics, Spatial Organization, and Landscape Change.- Green Landscapes: Exogenous Economic Benefi ts of Environmental Improvement.- Pricing the Economic Landscape: Global Financial Markets and the Communities and Institutions of Risk Management.- Integrative Landscape Change.- The Globalized Landscape: Rural Landscape Change and Policy in the United States and European Union.- Implications for Future Landscape Inquiry, Planning, and Design.