![]() J.Douglas Porteous is Professor of Geography, University of Victoria, Canada.ģ Other books by J.Douglas Porteous The Company Town of Goole: An Essay in Urban Genesis (1969) Canal Ports: The Urban Achievement of the Canal Age (1977) Environment and Behavior: Planning and Everyday Urban Life (1977) The Modernization of Easter Island (1981) The Mells (1988) Degrees of Freedom (1988) Planned to Death: The Annihilation of a Place Called Howdendyke (1989) Landscapes of the Mind: Worlds of Sense and Metaphor (1990) Mindscapes (in Japanese, 1992)Ĥ ENVIRONMENTAL AESTHETICS ideas, politics and planning J.DOUGLAS PORTEOUS LONDON AND NEW YORKĥ First published 1996 by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-library, Routledge is an International Thomson Publishing company 1996 J.Douglas Porteous All rights reserved. Equally at home with landscape art, psychological experiments, policy making and planning, the author brings us a step closer to understanding how our experience of city and country life can and should be improved. Unique in scope, the book dovetails concepts, methods and practice from disciplines as varied as architecture, art history, biology, environmental studies, forestry, geography, landscape design, law, literature, philosophy, psychology and urban planning. This is the first comprehensive account of the new interdiscipline of environmental aesthetics. Discussing the psychology of human-environment relations and the influences of literary, legal and artistic activism, the author concludes with an analysis of the essential roles of public policy and planning. The book traces the history of aesthetic thought and practice, examining basic aesthetic concepts and the resultant implementation of aesthetic policy in the landscape. ![]() Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.2 ENVIRONMENTAL AESTHETICS Why have our public environments become ugly wastelands or banal blandscapes? How important is an aesthetically pleasing public environment to personal well-being? Environmental Aesthetics explores the contributions made by a wide variety of disciplines to the conceptualization, conservation and design of environmental beauty in cities, rural areas and wilderness in the Western world. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time. ![]() Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection. ![]()
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