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100			_aThwaites, Kevin _941704
245			_aExperiential landscape : an approach to people, place and space _hBook
260			_aLondon & New York _bRoutledge _c2007
300			_axxv,230p.
500			_aContents Acknowledgements, vii A way of seeing, ix The concept of experiential landscape, xi Preface, xxiii Section One - Human-environment relations 1 Introduction, 1 1 A prevailing world view 3 Enlightenment human-environment relations and the separation of humans from environmental experience, 3 The professionalisation of landscape design, 7 The rise and crisis of design methodology, 9 Summary, 12 2 An alternative world view 15 Introduction, 15 The Romantic movement and Expressivism, 15 , A human-environment dialectic, 17 Environmentalism and human-environment relations, 19 New science perspectives on human-environment relations, 21 Self-generation and the systems view of life, 26 Summary, 26 3 Landscape as place 29 Theoretical origins of place, 31 Section Two - The concept of experiential landscape 35 Introduction, 35 4 Experiential and spatial dimensions 39 An experiential dimension, 39 Spatial dimensions of experience, 43 5 The vocabulary of experiential landscape 53 Centre, 55 Direction, 66 Transition, 69 Area, 72 6 Reading the experiential landscape 7S Introduction, 79 Information gathering: specialist training and user experience, 81 Information recording, 94 Interpreting the experiential landscape, 99 Summary, 106 7 Reflections on geometry 10! Mosaics of spatial experience, 112 Experiemic scale, 115 Enfolded place, 116 Conclusions, 131 Section Three - The application of experiential landscape 137 Introduction, 137 8 Reading the experiential landscape in residential settings 1; Introduction, 139 The Piggeries, Frome, Somerset, 140 Friary's Court, Beverley, Yorkshire, 146 Poundbury, Dorchester, Dorset, 149 9 In search of the identity of Kirby Hill 153 Introduction, 153 The role of experiential landscape, 155 The experiential landscape of Kirby Hill, 160 The identity of Kirby Hill, 162 Conclusions, 166 10Experiential landscape analysis and design in schools Introduction, 169 Field work in schools, 170 Collective personality, 172 Exploring the personality of place at a primary school, 179 Differentiating sense of place in a nursery playground, 185 Exploring nested centres, 189 11Experiential landscape in the Calls and Riverside, Leeds The Calls experience, 199 Design concept development, 210 References, 219 Index, 225
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