“When I show people this, they think it’s Mordor,” says landscape architecture professor Kathryn Moore with a smile. She is pointing at a map of the West Midlands. But instead of buildings, roads and a sprawling canal network, this map shows the natural hills and undulations that lie below the human-made architecture. “The whole region is like a basin, and it’s actually at the junction of two of the biggest river systems of the UK, but nobody ever thinks of it in that way,” Moore says. “The way we conceive of the region is the way the maps present it
When I show people this, they think its Mordor: the architect viewing the West Midlands as a national park
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