Environmental aesthetics : ideas, politics and planning / J. Douglas Porteous.
Material type: TextPublisher: London : Routledge, 1996Description: xviii, 290 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0415137705
- 9780415137706
- 0415137691
- 9780415137690
- 111.85
- BH301.E56 P67 1996
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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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