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Abney Park
Abney Park Cemetery
Animal Kingdom
Artificial Climates
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Camera Obscura
Cassell's Household Guide
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Common Language
domestic space wellbeing
ecological design
Eighteenth Century Natural History
environmental psychology
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Garden Cemetery
Gentleman's House
Impure Air
Jean Etienne Guettard
Kew Gardens
La Chaise
London's University College
Modern Botanical Garden
Mount Auburn
Nineteenth Century Visual Culture
nineteenth-century British environmental science
North American Flora
Palm House
plant physiology studies
Plaster Of Paris
Primitive Huts
Rural Cemetery Movement
Thomas Knight
Vice Versa
Victorian garden history
zoological influence architecture
Product details
- ISBN 9780815398394
- Weight: 670g
- Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 29 Nov 2017
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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The Vital Landscape explores the arrival of the biological sciences - most notably the sciences oflife 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. Specifically, the book explores the idea of the contrived or artificial environment as an object of both scientific speculation and aesthetic reflection. Unlike specialist histories of biological science or environmental thought, this book is unique in locating one source for present-day concerns for the environment and human well-being in debates over proper housing and the growing popularity of domestic and public gardens in the nineteenth century. The book skilfully interweaves architecture and garden history, the history and philosophy of science, plant and animal physiology and human psychology, works of literature, popular science and domestic economy in a story that opens new opportunities for the study of architecture and gardens.
