Cultured Landscape Designing the Environment in the 21st Century

Name: Cultured Landscape Designing the Environment in the 21st Century
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ISBN: 9780419250401

ISBN-10: 0419250409

ISBN-13: 9780419250401

Edition: 2006

Authors: Sheila Harvey, Ken Fieldhouse

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This book poses important philosophical questions about the aims, values and purposes of landscape architecture. This new international study raises awareness of the landscape and encourages new ways of thinking about quality in design.

Book details

List price: $61.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 12/16/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

James Hitchmough is Reader (Associate Professor) at the Department of Landscape, University of Sheffield. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Horticulture and has a wide-ranging interest in the use of vegetation in landscape design management.Ken Fieldhouse was a qualified Landscape Architecture and trained Town Planner. He was editor of Landscape Design Journal and was deeply involved in a wide range of environmental publishing initiatives.



Foreword (Alexander Garvin)


Dedication


Preface


Introduction



The theoretical, cultural, philosophical implications of landscape



Landscape as a way of knowing the world



Music-makers and the dreamers of dreams



Design context



Making places different



Designer, client and user



The benefits of the process and its place in the wider environmental agenda



Who benefits from landscape architecture?



The environmental agenda - a personal view



The search for a creative way forward



The future - landscape design in the 21 st century


Biographical


notes


photo


credits


index