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The landscape of man : shaping the environment from prehistory to the present day / Geoffrey & Susan Jellicoe ; edited by Tim Richardson..
Fine Arts Library SB470.5 .J44 2026
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jellicoe, Geoffrey, 1900-1996, author.
- Jellicoe, Susan, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Landscape architecture--History.
- Landscape architecture.
- Nature--Effect of human beings on--History.
- Nature.
- Physical Description:
- 440 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), maps, plans ; 29 cm
- Edition:
- Revised and updated edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York, NY : Thames and Hudson, 2026.
- Summary:
- From small gardens to complete cities, humans have always moulded their environment to express or symbolize ideas - power, order, comfort, harmony, pleasure, mystery. Geoffrey and Susan Jellicoe link these ideas together and demonstrate that they are manifestations of a single process: humankind's instinct to shape its surroundings. The ground covered includes ancient Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome, the Muslim world, medieval Europe, India, China, Japan, pre-Columbian America and the post-Renaissance West in all its phases, as well as planning and landscape architecture from 1945 up until the present day. The new final section of the book, edited and written by Tim Richardson, spans modernism to postmodernism to post-industrialism, as well as looking at large-scale urban planning in China and elsewhere, before ending with small-scale healing and community gardens.
- Notes:
- Previous edition: 1995.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780500028247
- 0500028249
- OCLC:
- 1572079252
- Publisher Number:
- CIPO000349615
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