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The Experience of Landscape
Item discusses "landscape aesthetics", including discussion on architecture, design, painting, photography and literature.
A Love Affair with Landscape
Poems by Professor Jay Appleton. Jay Appleton is an Emeritus Professor of the University of Hull where he taught geography from 1950 to 1985. 'The love of landscape was a sort of twine' 'That bound your vision of the world to mine'
A Love Affair with Landscape
Jay Appleton is an Emeritus Professor of the University of Hull where he taught geography from 1950 to 1985.
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
In this new collection of poems Professor Appleton draws on his lifelong interest in landscape and its influence on how we live to take a satirical swipe from an unusual angle at his opponents in an on-going topic of philosophical debate.
Ecology, Community and Delight
Ecology, Community and Delight examines three principal value systems which influence landscape architectural practice: the aesthetic, the social and the environmental, and seeks to discover the role that the profession should follow.
Disused Railways in the Countryside of England and Wales
This item is only available from the Stationery Office's On-Demand service (February 2001)
Environmental Aesthetics
How do people react to the visual character of their surroundings? What can planners do to improve the aesthetic quality of these surroundings? Too often in environmental design, visual quality--aesthetics--is misunderstood as only a minor concern, dependent on volatile taste and thus undefinable. Yet a substantial body of research indicates the importance of visual quality in the environment to the public and has uncovered systematic patterns of human response to visual attributes of the built environment. Efforts to understand environmental aesthetics have been undertaken by investigators from such diverse fields as landscape architecture, environmental psychology, geography, philosophy, architecture, and city planning. As a result the relevant information is scattered and not readily available to professionals and policy makers. The book brings together classic and new contributions by distinguished workers in different disciplines. It explores theory and data on preferences in the visual environment, and also addresses the practical application of aesthetic criteria in design, planning and public policy. Promising directions for future research are identified.
Building for Life
Sustainable design has made great strides in recent years; unfortunately, it still falls short of fully integrating nature into our built environment. Through a groundbreaking new paradigm of "restorative environmental design," award-winning author Stephen R. Kellert proposes a new architectural model of sustainability. In Building For Life, Kellert examines the fundamental interconnectedness of people and nature, and how the loss of this connection results in a diminished quality of life. This thoughtful new work illustrates how architects and designers can use simple methods to address our innate needs for contact with nature. Through the use of natural lighting, ventilation, and materials...
Grains Among the Chaff
"Inspired by the wit and wisdom of W.S. Gilbert and his enormously popular Savoy Operas, Jay Appleton and Geoffrey Shovelton have combined to produce an enormously warm and humorous volume in the grand tradition of British comic verse and cartoon. Much like Lear, Nash and others before them the authors have created verse which will make all generations smile with recognition."--Back cover.
How I Made the World
A great deal has been written in the past twenty-five years on the ways in which we perceive our environment and show our preferences for particular kinds of landscape. But most of this literature is based on consolidated data abstracted from questionnaires and we have almost no detailed case studies showing how habits of environmental perception and landscape taste have developed in single individuals. In this book Professor Jay Appleton, who has been closely involved with landscape aesthetics for twenty years, attempts an autobiographical study of the evolution of his own habits of perception, and his own emotional responses to particular kinds of landscape. The book traces some of the ways in which attitudes and habits of thought, once established, have influenced, encouraged and constrained the theoretical ideas on landscape which Jay Appleton has developed in his earlier published work.
