Historical Ground: The role of history in contemporary landscape architecture

by John Dixon Hunt

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Historical Ground investigates how contemporary landscape architecture invokes and displays the history of a site. In the light of modernism's neglect of history, these essays by John Dixon Hunt explore how, in fact, designers do attach importance to how a location manifests its past.

The process involves, on the one hand, registering how geography, topography and climate determine design and, on the other, how history discovered...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0415814138

ISBN13:9780415814133

Release Date:February 2014

Publisher:Routledge

Length:184 Pages

Weight:0.70 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"

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