The Vital Landscape: Nature and the Built Environment in Nineteenth-Century Britain

ISBN-13: 9781138357693 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 274 str.

William M. Taylor

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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.

O autorze

William M. Taylor