| Description |
544 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 30 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 520-533). |
| Contents |
Foreword -- Introduction. The shaping of space; the meaning of place -- 1. Magic, myth, and nature : landscapes of prehistoric, early ancient, and contemporary peoples -- I. Caves and circles : sustaining life and discerning cosmic order -- II. Architectural mountains and the earth's first cities : landscape as urban power in early ancient civilizations -- III. Ritual and landscape in prehistoric Greece : earth goddess and the mighty lords -- IV. Cosmology in the landscapes of the Americas : spirits of earth and sky -- 2. Nature, art, and reason : landscape design in the classical world -- I. Gods and humans : the new contract with nature -- II. Polis and Acropolis : city and temple in the Greek landscape -- III. Empire : Hellenism and Roman urbanism -- IV. Garden and villa : the art of landscape in ancient Rome -- 3. Visions of paradise : landscape design as symbol and metaphor -- I. Paradise as a literary topos : gardens of god and gardens of love -- II. Paradise on earth : the Islamic garden -- III. Paradise contained : walled cities and walled gardens of the European Middle Ages -- 4. Classicism reborn : landscape ideals of the Renaissance in Italy and France -- I. Petrarch, Alberti, and Colonna : humanism and the landscape -- II. Bramante and the rediscovery of axial planning : gardens of sixteenth-century Italy -- III. Axial planning on an urban scale : the development of Renaissance Rome -- IV. Currents of fashion : the transformation of the Italian garden in France -- V. The evolution of French urbanization and garden style : Paris in the time of Henry IV -- 5. Power and glory : the genius of Le Nôtre and the grandeur of the Baroque -- I. The making of Vaux-le-Vicomte and Versailles : André Le Nôtre -- II. The garden as theater : Italian Baroque and Rococo gardens -- |
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6. Expanding horizons : court and city in the European grand manner -- I. French and Italian exports : the application of classical and Baroque design principles to gardens in the Netherlands, England, Germany, and beyond -- II. The heroic city : expressions of classical and Baroque urbanism -- III. Nature's paradise : America in the colonial and federal periods -- 7. Sense and sensibility : landscapes of the Age of Reason, Romanticism, and Revolution -- I. The genius of the place : forging a new landscape style through literature, art, and theory -- II. Leaping the fence : the transformation of the English landscape into a pastoral idyll with political meaning -- III. Remaking England : Capability Brown, professional improver -- IV. Nature's canvas : English philosophers and practitioners of the picturesque -- V. Landscapes of moral virtue and exotic fantasy : the French picturesque -- VI. Designing nature's garden : the landscapes of Thomas Jefferson -- VII. The landscape of mind and soul : Goethe and Wordsworth -- 8. Nature as muse : the gardens of China and Japan -- I. Mountains, lakes, and islands : intimations of immortality in the Chinese garden -- II. Tea, moss, and stones : temple and palace gardens of Japan -- 9. Expanding cities and new social institutions : the democratization of landscape design -- I. Botanical science, the gardenesque style, and people's parks : landscape design in Victorian England -- II. Redefining rural America : the influence of Andrew Jackson Downing -- III. Honoring history and repose for the dead : commemorative landscapes and rural cemeteries -- IV. The new metropolis : Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux as park builders and city planners -- |
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10. Industrial Age civilization : birth of the modern city, Beaux-Arts America, and National Parks -- I. Haussmann's Paris : birth of the modern city -- II. The city beautiful : monumental urbanism in Beaux-Arts America -- III. America the beautiful : the National Park system -- 11. Landscape as aesthetic experience : the arts and crafts movement and the revival of the formal garden -- I. Modernity challenged : Ruskin's influence, the past revalued, and Italy's long shadow -- II. The Edwardian and post-Edwardian English garden : Aristocracy's golden afternoon and twilight -- III. Design synthesis : the end of the American country place era -- 12. Social utopias : modernism and regional planning -- I. Urban expansion : town planning for the Machine Age in Britain and continental Europe -- II. Greenbelt towns or suburbs? : creating the American metropolis -- 13. A new landscape aesthetic : the modernist garden -- I. Transitional experimentation : design idioms of the early twentieth century -- II. Abstract art and the functional landscape : gardens for modern living -- 14. Home, commerce, and entertainment : landscapes of consumerism -- I. A home for the family : the landscape of suburbia -- II. Commerce and entertainment : shopping malls and theme parks -- 15. Holding on and letting grow : landscape as preservation, conservation, art, sport, and theory -- I. Preserving the past : place as heritage, identity, tourist landscape, and new urbanist community -- II. Conserving nature : landscape design as environmental science and art -- III. Earthworks, golf courses, philosophical models, and poetic metaphors : landscape as art form, sport, deconstructivism, and Phenomenology -- 16. The weaving of place and the geography of flows : landscape as bodily experience and vernacular expression -- I. Body and space : the weaving of place -- II. Cultural geography : the loom of landscape -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index -- Photograph credits. |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Subject |
Landscape architecture -- History.
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Landscape design -- History.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Rogers, Elizabeth Barlow, 1936- Landscape design. New York : Harry N. Abrams, 2001 (OCoLC)606588461 |
| ISBN |
0810942534 |
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9780810942530 |
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