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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Routledge, 1996Description: xviii, 290 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0415137705
  • 9780415137706
  • 0415137691
  • 9780415137690
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 111.85
LOC classification:
  • BH301.E56 P67 1996
Contents:
List of 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 action -- 4.3. 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.
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Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 111.85 POR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A183287B

Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of 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 action -- 4.3. 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.

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