UID:
kobvindex_INT0001475
Format:
544 pages
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richly illustrated (chiefly colour), maps
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30 x 23 cm
ISBN:
9780810942530
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0810942534
Content:
"From ancient Egyptian royal cemeteries to great 18th-century English estates and the earth works of today, this volume spans the history of landscape design, revealing a great deal about the development of societies, and how cities, parks and gardens embody cultural values."
Content:
"This volume presents a history of the ways in which human beings have shaped the landscape at cult sites, in cities and on great private estates, from prehistoric times to the present, throughout the world. The book considers what the evolution of the design of the landscape reveals about the development of society and culture, examining famous cities, palaces and parks, as well as lesser-known designed landscapes, and even sites now vanished from around the world. Illustrated with hundreds of photographs, drawings and plans, the book leads the reader through ancient cities, palatial gardens and magnificent sanctuaries. Also covered are: the royal cemeteries of ancient Egypt; the superb temples of ancient Greece and Rome; the magnificent gardens of Renaissance and Baroque Europe and the Far East; the great public parks of the late 19th century; and some of the most exciting avant-garde gardens and earth works of the present day."
Note:
FOREWORD THE SHAPING OF SPACE; THE MEANING OF PLACE MAGIC, MYTH, AND NATURE: LANDSCAPES OF PREHISTORIC, EARLY ANCIENT, AND CONTEMPORARY PEOPLES I. CAVES AND CIRCLES: Sustaining Life and Discerning Cosmic Order II. ARCHITECTURAL MOUNTAINS AND THE EARTH'S FIRST CITIES: Landscape as Urban Power in Early Ancient Civilizations III. RITUAL AND LANDSCAPE IN PREHISTORIC GREECE: Earth Goddess and the Mighty Lords IV COSMOLOGY IN THE LANDSCAPES OF THE AMERICAS: Spirits of Earth and Sky NATURE, ART, AND REASON: LANDSCAPE DESIGN IN THE CLASSICAL WORLD I. GODS AND HUMANS: The New Contract with Nature II. POLIS AND ACROPOLIS: City and Temple in the Greek Landscape III. EMPIRE: Hellenism and Roman Urbanism IV GARDEN AND VILLA: The Art of Landscape in Ancient Rome VISIONS OF PARADISE: LANDSCAPE DESIGN AS SYMBOL AND METAPHOR I. PARADISE AS A LITERARY TOPOS: Gardens of God and Gardens of Love II. PARADISE ON EARTH: The Islamic Garden III. PARADISE CONTAINED: Walled Cities and Walled Gardens of the European Middle Ages CLASSICISM REBORN: LANDSCAPE IDEALS OF THE RENAISSANCE IN ITALY AND FRANCE I. PETRARCH, ALBERTI, AND COLONNA: Humanism and the Landscape II. BRAMANTE AND THE REDISCOVERY OF AXIAL PLANNING: Gardens of Sixteenth-Century Italy III. AXIAL PLANNING ON AN URBAN SCALE: The Development of Renaissance Rome IV CURRENTS OF FASHION: The Transformation of the Italian Garden in France V THE EVOLUTION OF FRENCH URBANIZATION AND GARDEN STYLE: Paris in the Time of Henry IV POWER AND GLORY: THE GENIUS OF LE NOTRE AND THE GRANDEUR OF THE BAROQUE I. THE MAKING OF VAUX-LE-VICOMTE AND VERSAILLES: Andre Le Notre II. THE GARDEN AS THEATER: Italian Baroque and Rococo Gardens EXPANDING HORIZONS: COURT AND CITY IN THE EUROPEAN GRAND MANNER I. FRENCH AND ITALIAN EXPORTS: The Application of Classical and Baroque Design Principles to Gardens in the Netherlands, England, Germany, and Beyond II. THE HEROIC CITY: Expressions of Classical and Baroque Urbanism III. NATURE'S PARADISE: America in the Colonial and Federal Periods SENSE AND SENSIBILITY: LANDSCAPES OF THE AGE OF REASON, ROMANTICISM, AND REVOLUTION I. THE GENIUS OF THE PLACE: Forging a New Landscape Style Through Literature, Art, and Theory II. LEAPING THE FENCE: The Transformation of the English Landscape into a Pastoral Idyll with Political Meaning III. REMAKING ENGLAND: Capability Brown, Professional Improver IM NATURE'S CANVAS: English Philosophers and Practitioners of the Picturesque V LANDSCAPES OF MORAL VIRTUE AND EXOTIC FANTASY: The French Picturesque VI. DESIGNING NATURE's GARDEN: The Landscapes of Thomas Jefferson VII. THE LANDSCAPE OF MIND AND SOUL: Goethe and Wordsworth NATURE AS MUSE THE GARDENS OF CHINA AND JAPAN I. MOUNTAINS, LAKES, AND ISLANDS: Intimations of Immortality in the Chinese Garden II. TEA, Moss, AND STONES: Temple and Palace Gardens of Japan EXPANDING CITIES AND NEW SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS: THE DEMOCRATIZATION OF LANDSCAPE DESIGN I. BOTANICAL SCIENCE, THE GARDENESQUE STYLE, AND PEOPLE'S PARKS: Landscape Design in Vitorian England II. REDEFINING RURAL AMERICA: The Influence of Andrew Jackson Downing III. HONORING HISTORY AND REPOSE FOR THE DEAD: Commemorative Landscapes and Rural Cemeteries IV THE NEW METROPOLIS: Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux as Park Builders and City Planners INDUSTRIAL AGE CIVILIZATION: BIRTH OF THE MODERN CITY, BEAUX-ARTS AMERICA, AND NATIONAL PARKS I. HAUSSMANN'S PARIS: Birth of the Modern City II. THE CITY BEAUTIFUL: Monumental Urbanism in Beaux-Arts America III. AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL: The National Park System LANDSCAPE AS AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE: THE ARTS AND CRAFTS MOVEMENT AND THE REVIVAL OF THE FORMAL GARDEN I. MODERNITY CHALLENGED: Ruskin's Influence, the Past Revalued, and Italy's Long Shadow II. THE EDWARDIAN AND POST-EDWARDIAN ENGLISH GARDEN: Aristocracy's Golden Afternoon and Twilight III. DESIGN SYNTHESIS: The End of the American Country Place Era SOCIAL UTOPIAS: MODERNISM AND REGIONAL PLANNING I. URBAN EXPANSION: Town Planningfor the Machine Age in Britain and Continental Europe II. GREENBELT TOWNS OR SUBURBS?: Creating the American Metropolis A NEW LANDSCAPE AESTHETIC: THE MODERNIST GARDEN I. TRANSITIONAL EXPERIMENTATION: Design Idioms of the Early Twentieth Century II. ABSTRACT ART AND THE FUNCTIONAL LANDSCAPE: Gardensfor Moder Living HOME, COMMERCE, AND ENTERTAINMENT: LANDSCAPES OF CONSUMERISM I. A HOME FOR THE FAMILY: The Landscape of Suburbia II. COMMERCE AND ENTERTAINMENT: Shopping Malls and Theme Parks HOLDING ON AND LETTING GROW: LANDSCAPE AS PRESERVATION, CONSERVATION, ART, SPORT, AND THEORY I. PRESERVING THE PAST: Place as Heritage, Identity, Tourist Landscape, and New Urbanist Community II. CONSERVING NATURE: Landscape Design as Environmental Science and Art III. EARTHWORKS, GOLF COURSES, PHILOSOPHICAL MODELS, AND POETIC METAPHORS: Landscape as Art Form, Sport, Deconstructivism, and Phenomenology THE WEAVING OF PLACE AND THE GEOGRAPHY OF FLOWS: LANDSdAPE AS BODILY EXPERIENCE AND VERNACULAR EXPRESSION I. BODY AND SPACE: The Weaving of Place II. CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY: The Loom of Landscape
Language:
English
Keywords:
Case studies
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