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The vital landscape : nature and the built environment in nineteenth-century Britain

Title: The vital landscape : nature and the built environment in nineteenth-century Britain / William M. Taylor.
Author: Taylor, William M., 1960-
Publication: Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT, USA : Ashgate, ©2004.

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Description

xvii, 252 pages : illustrations (some color); 25 cm

Summary

"The Vital Landscape explores the arrival of the biological sciences - most notably the sciences of 'life' entailed in studies of botany and zoology, ecology and evolutionary science, physiology and psychology - in the nineteenth century and their impact on architecture and landscape architecture in Great Britain."--Jacket.

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-243) and index.

Contents

1. Primitive huts and wild gardens -- 2. Vegetables in forcing-houses, humans in glasshouses -- 3. The vital landscape -- 4. Elemental existence -- 5. Patterns on the landscape -- 6. Characterizing life at home -- 7. Memory and the garden cemetery -- Conclusion : our (dys)functional environment.

ISBN

0754630692
9780754630692

LCCN

2003070816
99815515088

OCLC

ocm54066455
54066455
SCSB-14535142

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library