The Vital Landscape
Subtitle: Nature and the Built Environment in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: November 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780754630692
Subjects: History Of Art / Art & Design Styles; Great Britain; Gardening / Horticulture; Architecture; Landscape design; Greenhouses; Garden Design; General; 19th century; Gardens; History
First sentence: By the middle of the nineteenth century it was as though all buildings were made of glass.
Description: "The Vital Landscape explores the arrival of the biological sciences - most notably the sciences of 'life' entailed in studies of botany and zoology, ecology and evolutionary science, physiology and psychology - in the nineteenth century and their impact on architecture and landscape architecture in Great Britain."--Jacket.