Ecology, community, and delight : sources of values in landscape architecture / Ian H. Thompson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thompson, Ian H., 1955-

Contributor:

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Landscape architecture.

Landscape architecture--Philosophy.

Environment (Aesthetics).

Landscape assessment.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 201 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : E & FN Spon, 2000.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Landscape architecture is a key profession for a world facing an uncertain environmental future. Yet it is hindered by a chronic identity crisis: Is it primarily concerned with making beautiful places, helping people or saving the planet from ecological catastrophe? This book examines the three principle value systems which influence landscape architectural practice, the aesthetic, the social and the environmental, and seeks to discover the role that the profession should be playing now and for the future.

Contents:

1. What this book is about

pt. I. Delight

2. Natural aesthetics

3. In practice: improving the view?

4. Landscape architecture as an artform

5. In practice: but is it art?

pt. II. Community

6. The social value of landscape architecture

7. In practice: social workers in green wellies?

pt. III. Ecology

8. Environmental ethics

9. In practice: saving the planet?

10. Tri-valent design

Appendix. practitioner profiles.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780203362495

0203362497

Publisher Number:

99984206073

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.