The Landscape of Man

Shaping the Environment from Prehistory to the Present Day

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From small gardens to complete cities, humans have always moulded their environment to express or symbolize ideas – power, order, comfort, harmony, pleasure, mystery

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.
Edition type: Third edition, expanded and updated
Extent: 408 pp
Format: Paperback
Illustrations: 746
Publication date: 1995-01-30
Size: 28.3 x 23.2 cm
ISBN: 9780500278192

Press Reviews

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

The Compass of this excellent book is quite staggering
Financial Times


About the Authors

Susan Jellicoe is a landscape artist and wife of Geoffrey Jellicoe.

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