The Landscape of Man: Shaping the Environment from Prehistory to the Present Day - Softcover

Geoffrey Jellicoe; Susan Jellicoe

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0500278199 ISBN 13: 9780500278192

Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd, 1995

Synopsis

From small gardens to complete cities, humans have always moulded their environment to express or symbolize ideas - power, order, comfort, harmony, pleasure, mystery. It is Geoffrey and Susan Jellicoe's distinction to have realized that these are manifestations of a single process, and to have linked them all together. Taking twenty-eight 'cultures' from Ancient Mesopotamia to the Post-Renaissance West, the authors first summarize the social and intellectual background, then describe how this is expressed in in terms of landscape, and finally demonstrate their case in a series of picture spreads showing what actually happened. The final section - about a fifth of the whole - is devoted to planning since 1945. This edition has been revised and expanded to bring the text completely up to date, and show the implications of today's trends in landscape architecture and planning for tomorrow's world.

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Review:

'The compass of this excellent book is quite staggering' - Financial Times 'Essential reading for landscape architects, and should become a textbook for everyone interested in the philosophy and practice or environental improvement ... Clearly this book is a major environmental event' - Design

Synopsis:

This volume looks at the landscape of 28 cultures, ranging from ancient Mesopotamia to the present day, and shows how the environment is conditioned by the philosophy and religion of each civilization. A selection from Geoffrey Jellicoe's "The Atlanta Historical Garden" is included.

About this edition

• Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0500278199
• ISBN 13: 9780500278192
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 408