Main entry:

Jellicoe, Geoffrey, Sir, 1900-

Title & Author:

The landscape of man : shaping the environment from prehistory to the present day / Geoffrey and Susan Jellicoe.

Edition:

3rd ed., expanded and updated.

Publication:

London : Thames and Hudson, 1995.

Description:

408 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 29 cm

Notes:
Previous edition: 1987.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 402-404) and index.
Origins (Lascaux ; Carnac ; Stonehenge ; Uffington ; Easter Island) -- Western Asia to the Muslim conquest (Ur ; Babylon ; Persepolis ; Ctesiphon) -- Islam : Western Asia (Baghdad ; Samarra ; Bursa ; Constantinople ; Isfahan) -- The western expansion of Islam : Spain (Cordova ; Granada) -- The eastern expansion of Islam : Mughul India (Delhi ; Kashmir ; Agra) -- Ancient India (Sanchi ; Barabudur ; Ellura ; Mamallapuram ; Angkor) -- China (Soochow ; Hangchow ; Peking ; The great wall) -- Japan (Mount Fuji ; Nara ; Kyoto) -- Pre-Columbian America (Teotihuacan ; Copan ; Palenque ; Machu Picchu) -- Egypt (Gizeh ; Karnak ; Luxor) -- Greece (Mycenae ; Delos ; Delphi ; Olympia ; Athens) -- The Roman Empire (Tivoli ; Pont du gard ; Pompeii ; Pergamum ; Jerash ; Baalbek) -- The middle ages in Europe (St Gall ; Rievaulx ; Assisi ; Vézelay ; Bruges ; Cambridge).
Italy : the Renaissance (Cafaggiolo ; Tivoli ; Lante ; Villa rotonda) -- Italy : mannerism and baroque (Bomarzo ; Capponi ; Gamberaia ; Isola bella ; Garzoni) -- France : sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (Chenonceau ; Vaux-le-vicomte ; Chantilly ; Versailles) -- Spain, Germany, England, the Netherlands : sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (Seville ; Hellbrunn ; Heidelberg ; Hampton Court ; Greenwich) -- Western classicism (Vienna ; Karlsrühe ; Wilhelmshöhe ; St Petersburg ; Potsdam ; Washington) -- The Chinese school (The summer palaces, Peking ; Versailles ; Drottningholm ; Tsarskoe Selo) -- The English school (Castle Howard ; Chiswick ; Rousham ; Stowe ; Stourhead ; Painshill ; Bath) -- The European mainland (Muskau ; Neuschwanstein ; Vienna ; Paris) -- The British Isles (Regent's park ; Isles of Scilly ; Scotney ; Biddulph Grange ; Holland Park ; Munstead Wood ; Bodnant).
United States of America (Central Park, New York ; Prospect Park ; Chicago World's Fair) -- Europe (Marshcourt ; Barcelona ; Stockholm ; Welwyn ; Aarhus ; Bos Park) -- The Americas (Washington ; Westchester Park System ; Falling Water ; Tennessee Valley ; Everglades) -- The Western hemisphere : the New World (Rio de Janeiro ; Brasilia ; Mexico City ; Atlanta ; Boston ; Los Angeles ; Buffalo) -- The Eastern hemisphere : the Old World (Harlow ; Tapiola ; Chandigarh ; Brondsby Strand ; Urbino ; Glostrup ; Ronchamp ; Sydney) -- World trends in landscape design (Sultan Quboos University ; Stoke-on-Trent ; La Villette ; Milton Keynes ; Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon ; Victoria Park ; Toronto Zoo ; Lunuganga ; Brion ; Earthworks ; Canberra ; Hiroshima ; Mexico City ; Niagara Falls ; San Deigo ; Modena ; Brescia ; Galveston ; Atlanta) -- Towards the landscape of humanism.

Summary:

This volume looks at the landscape of 28 cultures, ranging from ancient Mesopotamia to the present day, and shows how the environment is conditioned by the philosophy and religion of each civilization. A selection from Geoffrey Jellicoe's "The Atlanta Historical Garden" is included.

ISBN:

0500278199 (paperback)
9780500278192 (paperback)

Subject:

Landscape architecture History.
Human beings Influence on nature History.
Landscape architecture History Pictorial works.
Human beings Influence on nature History Pictorial works.
Civilization.
Architecture du paysage Histoire.
Architecture du paysage Histoire Ouvrages illustrés.
Civilisation.
landscape architecture (discipline)
civilization.
Landscape architecture
Bildband
Geschichte
Kulturdenkmal
Kulturlandschaft
Landschaft
Nature Effect of human beings on History.
Nature Effect of human beings on History Pictorial works.
landschap
landscape
landschapsarchitectuur
landscape architecture
ruimtelijke ordening
physical planning
historische verslagen
historical records
beschaving
Landscape Architecture (General)
Physical Planning (General)
Landschapsarchitectuur (algemeen)
Ruimtelijke ordening (algemeen)

Form/genre:

Viewbooks.
History
Pictorial works

Added entries:

Jellicoe, Susan.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 116850
Call No.: ID:95-B1236
Status: Available