1st Edition
The Vital Landscape Nature and the Built Environment in Nineteenth-Century Britain
By William M. Taylor
Copyright 2004
274 Pages
by
Routledge
274 Pages
by
Routledge
274 Pages
by
Routledge
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The Vital Landscape explores the arrival of the biological sciences - most notably the sciences oflife entailed in studies of botany and zoology, ecology and evolutionary science, physiology and psychology - in the nineteenth century and their impact on architecture and landscape architecture in Great Britain. Specifically, the book explores the idea of the contrived or artificial environment as... Read more
Contents: Preface; Introduction; Primitive huts and wild gardens; Vegetables in forcing-houses, humans in glasshouses; The vital landscape; Elemental existence; Patterns on the landscape; Characterizing life at home; Memory and the garden cemetery; Conclusion: our (dys)functional environment; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
William M. Taylor
