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- catalog abstract ""This book combines poetry and pragmatism to teach the language of landscape. Anne Whiston Spirn argues that the language of landscape exists with its own grammar and metaphors, and that we imperil ourselves by failing to learn to read and speak this language. To understand the meanings of landscape, our habitat, is to see the world differently and to enable ourselves to avoid profound environmental and aesthetic mistakes."--BOOK JACKET. "Offering examples that range across thousands of years and five continents, Spirn examines urban, rural, and natural landscapes. She discusses the thought of renowned landscape authors - Thomas Jefferson, Frederick Law Olmsted, Frank Lloyd Wright, Lawrence Halprin - and of less well known pioneers, including the Australian architect Glenn Murcutt and the Danish landscape architect C. Th. Sorensen."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b10874919.
- catalog created "c1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "c1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1998.".
- catalog description ""This book combines poetry and pragmatism to teach the language of landscape. Anne Whiston Spirn argues that the language of landscape exists with its own grammar and metaphors, and that we imperil ourselves by failing to learn to read and speak this language. To understand the meanings of landscape, our habitat, is to see the world differently and to enable ourselves to avoid profound environmental and aesthetic mistakes."--BOOK JACKET. "Offering examples that range across thousands of years and five continents, Spirn examines urban, rural, and natural landscapes. She discusses the thought of renowned landscape authors - Thomas Jefferson, Frederick Law Olmsted, Frank Lloyd Wright, Lawrence Halprin - and of less well known pioneers, including the Australian architect Glenn Murcutt and the Danish landscape architect C. Th. Sorensen."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-310) and index.".
- catalog description "Prologue: The Yellowwood and the Forgotten Creek -- 1. "Nature's Infinite Book": The Language of Landscape. 1. Dwelling and Tongue: The Language of Landscape. 2. Survival and Imagination: Reading and Telling the Meanings of Landscape. 3. Artful Telling, Deep Reading: The Literature of Landscape -- 2. "Without Form and Void" to "Heaven and Earth": Landscape Composition. 4. Is a Path Like a Noun, Flowing Like a Verb? Elements of Landscape and Language. 5. Dynamic Weaving, Fabric of Stories: Shaping Landscape Context. 6. Rules of Context: Landscape Grammar -- 3. Using the Language of Landscape: Pragmatics, Poetics, and Polemics. 7. Shaping: Pragmatics of Landscape Expression. 8. A Rose Is Rarely Just a Rose: Poetics of Landscape. 9. Polemical Landscapes -- Epilogue: Reimagining Mill Creek.".
- catalog extent "viii, 326 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0300077459".
- catalog identifier "0300082940 (pbk.)".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "c1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press,".
- catalog subject "712 21".
- catalog subject "Human ecology.".
- catalog subject "Landscape architecture.".
- catalog subject "Landscape assessment.".
- catalog subject "Landscapes.".
- catalog subject "SB472 .S685 1998".
- catalog subject "SB472 .S685 1998X".
- catalog tableOfContents "Prologue: The Yellowwood and the Forgotten Creek -- 1. "Nature's Infinite Book": The Language of Landscape. 1. Dwelling and Tongue: The Language of Landscape. 2. Survival and Imagination: Reading and Telling the Meanings of Landscape. 3. Artful Telling, Deep Reading: The Literature of Landscape -- 2. "Without Form and Void" to "Heaven and Earth": Landscape Composition. 4. Is a Path Like a Noun, Flowing Like a Verb? Elements of Landscape and Language. 5. Dynamic Weaving, Fabric of Stories: Shaping Landscape Context. 6. Rules of Context: Landscape Grammar -- 3. Using the Language of Landscape: Pragmatics, Poetics, and Polemics. 7. Shaping: Pragmatics of Landscape Expression. 8. A Rose Is Rarely Just a Rose: Poetics of Landscape. 9. Polemical Landscapes -- Epilogue: Reimagining Mill Creek.".
- catalog title "The language of landscape / Anne Whiston Spirn ; photographs by Anne Whiston Spirn.".
- catalog type "text".