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Terms and conditions applyThe Cultured Landscape: Designing the Environment in the 21st Century
Sheila Harvey, Ken Fieldhouse
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Format: Book
Pages: 224
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Date Published: Sep 2005
Stock Code: 36064
Binding: Paperback
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This book poses important philosophical questions about the aims, values and purposes of landscape architecture. The editors, highly regarded in their field, have drawn together a distinguished team of writers who provide unique individual perspectives on contemporary themes from a wide base of knowledge. Altogether, this new international study raises awareness of the landscape and encourages innovative ways of thinking about quality in design.
Contents include a foreword by Alexander Garvin Part 1: The theoretical, cultural, philosophical implications of landscape 1. Landscape as a way of knowing the world 2. Music-makers and the dreamers of dreams Part 2: Design context 3. Making places different 4. Designer, client and user Part 3: The benefits of the process and its place in the wider environmental agenda 5. Who benefits from landscape architecture? 6. The environmental agenda a personal view Part 4: The search for a creative way forward 7. The future landscape design in the 21st century Biographical notes photo credits index
Contributors include Merrick Denton-Thompson, Sheila Harvey, John Hopkins, Peter Neal, Martha Schwartz, Alan Tate and
Catherine Ward Thompson.
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