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- catalog abstract ""Landscape architecture is a key profession for a world facing an uncertain environmental future. Yet it is hindered by a chronic identity crisis. Is it primarily concerned with making beautiful places, helping people or saving the planet from ecological catastrophe? This book examines the three principal value systems which influence landscape architectural practice - the aesthetic, the social and the environmental - and seeks to discover the role that the profession should be playing now and for the future."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11526942.
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""Landscape architecture is a key profession for a world facing an uncertain environmental future. Yet it is hindered by a chronic identity crisis. Is it primarily concerned with making beautiful places, helping people or saving the planet from ecological catastrophe? This book examines the three principal value systems which influence landscape architectural practice - the aesthetic, the social and the environmental - and seeks to discover the role that the profession should be playing now and for the future."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "1. What this book is about -- Pt. I. Delight -- 2. Natural aesthetics -- 3. In practice: improving the view? -- 4. Landscape architecture as an artform -- 5. In practice: but is it art? -- Pt. II. Community -- 6. The social value of landscape architecture -- 7. In practice: social workers in green wellies? -- Pt. III. Ecology -- 8. Environmental ethics -- 9. In practice: saving the planet? -- 10. Tri-valent design -- Appendix. practitioner profiles.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "x, 201 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0419236104 (pbk)".
- catalog identifier "0419251502 (hbk)".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London ; New York : E & FN Spon,".
- catalog subject "712/.01 21".
- catalog subject "Environment (Aesthetics)".
- catalog subject "Landscape architecture Philosophy.".
- catalog subject "Landscape architecture.".
- catalog subject "Landscape assessment.".
- catalog subject "SB472 .T48 1999".
- catalog subject "SB472 .T48 2000X".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. What this book is about -- Pt. I. Delight -- 2. Natural aesthetics -- 3. In practice: improving the view? -- 4. Landscape architecture as an artform -- 5. In practice: but is it art? -- Pt. II. Community -- 6. The social value of landscape architecture -- 7. In practice: social workers in green wellies? -- Pt. III. Ecology -- 8. Environmental ethics -- 9. In practice: saving the planet? -- 10. Tri-valent design -- Appendix. practitioner profiles.".
- catalog title "Ecology, community, and delight : sources of values in landscape architecture / Ian H. Thompson.".
- catalog type "text".