num_pages: 129
description: Essays examine the way we perceive landscape, the effect of gardens and cities of the past on the landscapes of the present, and the way American architecture has broken with tradition. Discussion relates the importance of space to relativism throughout time.
language: English
title: The Necessity for Ruins and Other Topics
titlecomplete: The Necessity for Ruins and Other Topics
genres: Theory, Geography, Nature, Philosophy, Nonfiction, Essays, Architecture, Art, Landscape Architecture
ratings_count: 117
publisher: University of Massachusetts Press