The visual and spatial structure of landscapes

Higuchi, Tadahiko

ISBN 10: 0262081202 / ISBN 13: 9780262081207

Published by MIT Press (edition First Edition Thus), 1983

About this Item

It's a preowned item in good condition and includes all the pages. It may have some general signs of wear and tear, such as markings, highlighting, slight damage to the cover, minimal wear to the binding, etc., but they will not affect the overall reading experience.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The visual and spatial structure of landscapes
• Publisher: MIT Press (edition First Edition Thus)
• Publication Date: 1983
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0262081202
• ISBN 13: 9780262081207
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition Thus.
• Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis

In this imaginative and generously illustrated book, Tadahiko Higuchi applies a methodology to landscape that is similar to that developed by Kevin Lynch for investigating the extent to which urban settings are legible and imageable to their inhabitants.

Review

Higuchi's The Visual and Spatial Structure of Landscapes is an important book. In a sense, it is really two books: in the first section, he attempts to apply Lynch's concept of perceptual analysis not to the city, but to the landscape; in the second section, he advances a typology of historical landscape, and explicates its role in Japanese history and spatial design... a classic work that bears reading and studying by those involved with landscape from a design or from a historical/interpretive point of view.

--Marc Treib, Design Book Review