Site/Lines, a journal of place-based writing, is a publication of the Foundation for Landscape Studies. It serves as a literary forum for essays and reviews of books, exhibitions, and designs dealing with landscape themes and projects, It occupies a niche in the middle ground between the scholarly journal and the garden magazine.
The editor's definition of landscape is a broad one. It embraces ordinary-sometimes called vernacular-scenery, city planning, and the protection of wild and rural environments as well as world monuments and historic sites. Reception, or the social life of landscapes-in other words, how they are received by different societies over time-is also an important part of its purview. Contributors to Site/Lines engage these subjects through research, critical assessment, and the experiential knowledge gained through travel, daily observation, and the creation of those personal paradises called gardens. Site/Lines covers the portrayal of landscape ideals and conditions in the fine arts, including the art of photography. Its subject matter also includes the practical disciplines of landscape architecture and landscape management.