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Record Nr.

UNINA9910222233203321

Autore

Porteous J. Douglas (John Douglas), <1943->

Titolo

Environmental aesthetics : ideas, politics and planning / / J. Douglas Porteous

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1996

ISBN

1-134-77500-8

0-203-28469-0

1-280-31956-9

0-203-43732-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (310 p.)

Disciplina

111/.85

Soggetti

Environment (Aesthetics)

Landscape architecture

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; ENVIRONMENTAL AESTHETICS: ideas, politics and planning; Copyright; CONTENTS; PLATES, FIGURES AND TABLES; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PREFACE; 1 INTRODUCTION; 1.1 ENVIRONMENTAL AESTHETICS; 1.2 A SHORT HISTORY OF AESTHETICS; 1.3 THE ORIGINS OF THE AESTHETIC IMPULSE; 1.4 THE SENSES; 2 HUMANISTS; 2.1 THE HUMANIST APPROACH; 2.2 A HISTORY OF LANDSCAPE TASTE; 2.3 LANDSCAPES; 2.4 SOME NATIONAL CONTRASTS; 3 EXPERIMENTALISTS; 3.1 THE EXPERIMENTALIST APPROACH; 3.2 PROPERTIES OF ENVIRONMENTS AND PERSONS; 3.3 SCENERY IS GOOD FOR YOU; 3.4 METHODOLOGICAL PROBLEMS; 4 ACTIVISTS; 4.1 LITERARY AND DESIGN ACTIVISM

4.2 CITIZEN ACTION4.3 LEGAL ISSUES; 4.4 PUBLIC POLICY; 5 PLANNERS; 5.1 AESTHETIC LANDSCAPE PLANNING; 5.2 URBAN AESTHETIC PLANNING; 5.3 ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION; 5.4 AESTHETIC CRITIQUE; AFTERWORD: beyond aesthetics; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Environmental Aesthetics is a comprehensive introduction. It includes a history of aesthetics, discussing the psychology of human-environment relations, and artistic influences on the city and analysing the roles of policy and planning.