Hidden landscapes : the metropolitan garden as a multi-sensory expression of place / Saskia de Wit.

Main entry:

Wit, Saskia de, author.

Title & Author:

Hidden landscapes : the metropolitan garden as a multi-sensory expression of place / Saskia de Wit.

Publication:

Amsterdam : Architectura & Natura, [2018]
©2018

Description:

431 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), charts, maps, plans ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The metropolitan garden -- The garden as a scene -- The garden as a portal -- The garden as a stage -- Experiencing place and nature in the metropolitan landscape.

Summary:

"Hidden Landscapes shows how small scale public spaces become important alternatives in a worldwide process of urbanisation. This book offers possibilities to experience (smaller) rest spaces on the scale of human and physical perception. The garden is the classical example in making a landscape expressive and can structure urban conditions at the same time. With six prototypes: The Tofuku-ji Hojo gardens in Kyoto (1938), St. Catherine's College Quadrangle in Oxford (1959), Paley Park in Manhattan (1967), de Reflection Garden, Seattle (1979), the Jardin de Crazannes Garden and Jardin des Oiseaux, along the motorway in France (1993), and the Wasserkrater garden in Bad Oeynhausen in Germany (1997)"-- Publisher's website

ISBN:

9789461400611 (paperback)
9461400616

Subject:

Urban landscape architecture.
Urban gardens.
Public spaces.
Paysage urbain.
Jardins urbains.
Espaces publics.
urban landscapes.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 301374
Call No.: BIB 247540
Status: Available

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