Bourassa AESTHETICS OF LANDSCAPE city urban planning

ISBN 1852930714

Size = 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall

The aim of this book is to explore from the points of view of philosophy, psychology, art, history and planning, the idea of landscape beauty, and to construct an integrated theory of landscape aesthetics. While pleasurable (or otherwise) responses to places are one of the most common human emotional experiences, the complex of biological, cultural and psychological reasons that shape our feelings toward landscape are rarely explored to establish why we like or dislike particular scenes. Bourassa offers a new articulation of ideas to address this question.

The book opens with and examination of the problems of landscape aesthetics, defining the nature of the theme and the theoretical hurdles to be overcome. The next chapter explores the topic of landscape in the history of aesthetic thought, which introduces a framework for aesthetic analysis of landscape, drawing on the work of Bacheland, Jung, Dewey and Langer, among others. The following three chapters consider the importance of biological and cultural factors and individual differences to the aesthetic response. The book is concluded with a proposal for a meta-aesthetic theory of landscape, which links the topic to the mainstream of aesthetic ideas, and a discussion of how the theory can be applied to landscape planning and design.

CONTENTS:

1. Landscape as Esthetic Object
2. Esthetic Experience
3. A Paradigm for Landscape Esthetics
4. Biological Laws
5. Cultural Rules
6. Personal Strategies
7. Landscape Evaluation
8. Postmodernism

Bibliography
Index

168 pages. Hard cover with UNCLIPPED dust jacket. Ex-Library, very much cleaner & better than usual.

Weight = 800 g

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