Environmental aesthetics
Subtitle: ideas, politics and planning
By: J. Douglas Porteous.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
Subjects: Environment (Aesthetics); Landscape architecture
Description: This is the first comprehensive, integrated study of the emerging interdisciplinary field of environmental aesthetics. The author takes the reader through a brief history of both aesthetics and taste, then discusses the psychology of human-environment relations, the influences of literary, artistic and legal activism on city, countryside and wilderness, and concludes with an analysis of the roles of public policy and of planning.

Clearly written and lavishly illustrated, the book brings together the ideas, methods and practice of a wide range of academic and professional disciplines. The book will prove an invaluable introduction to all interested in how the experience of both city and country life can and should be improved.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.