Research Catalog

Title

The aesthetics of human environments / edited by Arnold Berleant and Allen Carlson.

Publication

Peterborough, Ont. : Broadview Press, c2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Berleant, Arnold, 1932-
• Carlson, Allen

Description

312 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Environment (Aesthetics)
• Aesthetics
• Culture
• Urban landscape architecture
• Esthétique
• Culture
• Paysage urbain

Genre/Form

Textbooks

Note

• "Companion ... to this volume, The aesthetics of natural environments"--P. 9.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-296) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: the aesthetics of human environments / Arnold Berleant and Allen Carlson -- On aesthetically appreciating human environments / Allen Carlson -- Urban richness and the art of building / Pauline von Bonsdorff -- Cultivating an urban aesthetic / Arnold Berleant -- Multi-sensoriness and the city / Yrjö Sepänmaa -- Walking the city / David Macauley -- The last stop of desire: the aesthetics of the shopping center / Mikita Brottman -- Deconstructing Disney World / Arnold Berleant -- Cultivating commonplaces: sophisticated vernacularism in Japan / Barbara Sandrisser -- Everyday surface aesthetic qualities: neat, messy, clean, dirty / Thomas Leddy -- Living in glass houses: domesticity, interior decoration, and environmental aesthetics / Kevin Melchionne -- The aesthetics of playtime recycling / Janet McCracken -- The role of aesthetics in civic environmentalism / Yuriko Saito -- The garden and the red barn: the pervasive pastoral and its environmental consequences / Sally Schauman -- On appreciating agricultural landscapes / Allen Carlson -- Gardens, nature, pleasure / Stephanie Ross -- The view from the road and the picturesque / Malcolm Andrews.

ISBN

• 9781551116853
• 1551116855

OCLC

• 77378747
• SCSB-10590689

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library