CONTENTS
Foreword 16
Introduction : The shaping of space ; the meaning of place 20
Chapter One : Magic, myth, and nature : landscapes of prehistoric, early ancient, and contemporary peoples 26
Chapter Two : Nature, art, and reason : landscape design in the classical world 58
Chapter Three : Visions of paradise : landscape design as symbol and metaphor 97
Chapter Four : Classicism reborn : landscape ideals of the Renaissance in Italy and France 125
Chapter Five : Power and glory : the genius of Le Notre and the grandeur of the Baroque 165
Chapter Six : Expanding horizons : court and city in the European grand manner 194
Chapter Seven : Sense and sensibility : landscapes of the Age of Reason, romanticism, and revolution 232
Chapter Eight : Nature as muse : the gardens of China and Japan 281
Chapter Nine : Expanding cities and new social institutions : the democratization of landscape design 311
Chapter Ten : Industrial Age civilization : birth of the modern city, beaux-arts America, and national parks 357
Chapter Eleven : Landscape as aesthetic experience : the arts and crafts movement and the revival of the formal garden 375
Chapter Twelve : Social utopias : modernism and regional planning 402
Chapter Thirteen : New landscape aesthetic : the modernist garden 434
Chapter Fourteen : Home, commerce, and entertainment : landscapes of consumerism 457
Chapter Fifteen : Holding on and letting grow : landscape as preservation, conservation, art, sport, and theory 470
Chapter Sixteen : Weaving of place and the geography of flows : landscape as bodily experience and vernacular expression 502
Glossary 514
Bibliography 520
Index 534
Photograph Credits 544