Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Berleant, Arnold, 1932-
2. Carlson, Allen

Description

1. 312 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Subject

1. Environment (Aesthetics)
2. Aesthetics
3. Culture
4. Urban landscape architecture
5. Esthétique
6. Culture
7. Paysage urbain

Genre/Form

1. Textbooks

Contents

1. Introduction: the aesthetics of human environments / Arnold Berleant and Allen Carlson -- On aesthetically appreciating human environments / Allen Carlson -- Urban richness and the art of building / Pauline von Bonsdorff -- Cultivating an urban aesthetic / Arnold Berleant -- Multi-sensoriness and the city / Yrjö Sepänmaa -- Walking the city / David Macauley -- The last stop of desire: the aesthetics of the shopping center / Mikita Brottman -- Deconstructing Disney World / Arnold Berleant -- Cultivating commonplaces: sophisticated vernacularism in Japan / Barbara Sandrisser -- Everyday surface aesthetic qualities: neat, messy, clean, dirty / Thomas Leddy -- Living in glass houses: domesticity, interior decoration, and environmental aesthetics / Kevin Melchionne -- The aesthetics of playtime recycling / Janet McCracken -- The role of aesthetics in civic environmentalism / Yuriko Saito -- The garden and the red barn: the pervasive pastoral and its environmental consequences / Sally Schauman -- On appreciating agricultural landscapes / Allen Carlson -- Gardens, nature, pleasure / Stephanie Ross -- The view from the road and the picturesque / Malcolm Andrews.

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

Note

1. "Companion ... to this volume, The aesthetics of natural environments"--P. 9.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-296) and index.

Processing action (note)

1. committed to retain