TY - BOOK AU - Porteous,J.Douglas TI - Environmental aesthetics: ideas, politics and planning SN - 0415137705 AV - BH301.E56 P67 1996 U1 - 111.85 PY - 1996/// CY - London PB - Routledge KW - Environment (Aesthetics) KW - Landscape architecture N1 - 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 ER -