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As an art form, these architectural landscape creations are stamped with societal imprints unique to their environment and place in time. Architecture and cultural history oxford handbooks. Preserving cultural landscapesthe combined fabric of the natural and manmade environmentsis a relatively new and often misunderstood idea among preservationists, but it is of increasing importance. Landscape designs will be considered in the context of the times and societies in which they were created. This volume presents a history of the ways in which human beings have shaped the landscape at cult sites, in cities and on great private estates, from prehistoric times to the present, throughout the world. Read more them, from ancient egyptian royal cemeteries to magnificent renaissance gardens to modernday earthworks, reflecting on how the landscape reflects social development and cultural values. Superb illustrations and pictures do ample justice to the text. Rent landscape design a cultural and architectural history 1st edition 9780810942530 and save up to 80% on textbook rentals and 90% on used.
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