Rethinking landscape : a critical reader / Ian Thompson.
Publisher: London : Routledge, 2009Description: xx, 250 p. : ill. ; 25 cm001: 43337ISBN: 9780415424646 (pbk.) :; 9780415424639 (hbk.) :Subject(s): Landscape architecture -- Philosophy | Environment (Aesthetics) | Architecture and PlanningDDC classification: 712 THO LOC classification: SB472 | .T483 2009Summary: Ian Thompson considers the aesthetic, social, cultural and environmental foundations of our thinking about landscape, and explores the key writings which shaped the field in its emergence and maturity.| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Our landscapes have never failed to entice and capture the imagination of writers, painters and philosophers - and in turn their work has influenced our landscapes for centuries.
This carefully selected collection of readings and commentary expertly guides you through the aesthetic, social, cultural and environmental foundations of our thinking about landscape, and explores the key writings which shaped the field in its emergence and maturity.
Provoking thought and discussion, this book does not provide answers, and will not conclude with an infallible theory of landscape. But with a range of readings from Vitruvius to Jellicoe, from Burke to Berlin to Berleant, from the Picturesque to Phenomenology, every reader will find something here to set them thinking.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-240) and index.
Ian Thompson considers the aesthetic, social, cultural and environmental foundations of our thinking about landscape, and explores the key writings which shaped the field in its emergence and maturity.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Part 1 Pluralism
- 1 Is the Truth Out There?
- 2 Trivalent Design
- Part 2 Aesthetics
- 3 Rationalism
- 4 Empiricism
- 5 The Picturesque
- 6 Biological Theories
- 7 Use and Beauty
- 8 Functionalism
- 9 Landscape as Art
- Part 3 The Social Mission
- 10 Landscape and Power
- 11 The Failed Vision of Modernism
- 12 The Amelioration of the City
- 13 Participation and Collaboration
- Part 4 Ecology
- 13 Meanings and Metaphors in Ecology
- 14 Varieties of Environmental Ethics
- 15 The Ecological Approach and Landscape Ecology
- 16 Sustainability
- Part 5 Some other Perspectives
- 17 Phenomenology and the Experience of Landscape
- 18 The Genius Loci
- Part 6 Conclusions and Suggestions
- 19 Pulling it all together Further Reading
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