Environmental aesthetics : ideas, politics and planning /
Porteous, J. Douglas 1943-
Environmental aesthetics : ideas, politics and planning / J. Douglas Porteous. - xviii, 290 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
List of plates, figures and tables -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- Environmental aesthetics -- A short history of aesthetics -- The origins of the aesthetic impulse -- The senses -- Humanists -- The humanist approach -- A history of landscape taste -- Landscapes -- Some national contrasts -- Experimentalists -- The experimentalist approach -- Properties of environments and persons -- Scenery is good for you -- Methodological problems -- Activists -- Literary and design activism -- Citizen action -- Legal issues -- Public policy -- Planners -- Aesthetic landscape planning -- Urban aesthetic planning -- Environmental education -- Aesthetic critique -- Afterword: Beyond aesthetics -- Bibliography -- Index. 1. 1.1. 1.2. 1.3. 1.4. 2. 2.1. 2.2. 2.3. 2.4. 3. 3.1. 3.2. 3.3. 3.4. 4. 4.1. 4.2. 4.3. 4.4. 5. 5.1. 5.2. 5.3. 5.4.
0415137705 9780415137706 0415137691 9780415137690
95047890
Environment (Aesthetics)
Landscape architecture
BH301.E56 / P67 1996
111.85
Environmental aesthetics : ideas, politics and planning / J. Douglas Porteous. - xviii, 290 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
List of plates, figures and tables -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- Environmental aesthetics -- A short history of aesthetics -- The origins of the aesthetic impulse -- The senses -- Humanists -- The humanist approach -- A history of landscape taste -- Landscapes -- Some national contrasts -- Experimentalists -- The experimentalist approach -- Properties of environments and persons -- Scenery is good for you -- Methodological problems -- Activists -- Literary and design activism -- Citizen action -- Legal issues -- Public policy -- Planners -- Aesthetic landscape planning -- Urban aesthetic planning -- Environmental education -- Aesthetic critique -- Afterword: Beyond aesthetics -- Bibliography -- Index. 1. 1.1. 1.2. 1.3. 1.4. 2. 2.1. 2.2. 2.3. 2.4. 3. 3.1. 3.2. 3.3. 3.4. 4. 4.1. 4.2. 4.3. 4.4. 5. 5.1. 5.2. 5.3. 5.4.
0415137705 9780415137706 0415137691 9780415137690
95047890
Environment (Aesthetics)
Landscape architecture
BH301.E56 / P67 1996
111.85