Overview
Why do modern cities, suburbs, and industrial and farming landscapes all tend to look alike despite their regional settings? In this generously illustrated and provocative book, a landscape architect argues that the monotony of the modern landscape is a reflection of indifference on the part of society to the diversity inherent in ecological systems and in human communities. In case studies drawn from all parts of the world--Turkey and Hong Kong to northern England and Edinburgh, to Kentucky and Oregon, to Ontario and Manitoba--Michael Hough shows how build environments work and what designers can do to maintain the clearly identifiable differences between one place and another.
- | Author: Michael Hough
- | Publisher: Yale University Press
- | Publication Date: Jan 29, 1992
- | Number of Pages: 244 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0300052235
- | ISBN-13: 9780300052237
