![]() J.Douglas Porteous is Professor of Geography, University of Victoria, Canada. Equally at home with landscape art, psychological experiments, policy making and planning, the author brings us a step closer to understanding how our experience of city and country life can and should be improved. Unique in scope, the book dovetails concepts, methods and practice from disciplines as varied as architecture, art history, biology, environmental studies, forestry, geography, landscape design, law, literature, philosophy, psychology and urban planning. This is the first comprehensive account of the new interdiscipline of environmental aesthetics. Discussing the psychology of human-environment relations and the influences of literary, legal and artistic activism, the author concludes with an analysis of the essential roles of public policy and planning. ![]() The book traces the history of aesthetic thought and practice, examining basic aesthetic concepts and the resultant implementation of aesthetic policy in the landscape. Why have our public environments become ugly wastelands or banal blandscapes? How important is an aesthetically pleasing public environment to personal well-being? Environmental Aesthetics explores the contributions made by a wide variety of disciplines to the conceptualization, conservation and design of environmental beauty in cities, rural areas and wilderness in the Western world.
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