Hidden Landscapes

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Hidden Landscapes
Hidden Landscapes
Author : Saskia de Wit
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Publisher : Unknown
Language : English
Release Date : 01 December 2018
ISBN : 9461400616
Pages : 431 pages
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Hidden Landscapes by Saskia de Wit Book PDF Summary

'The Metropolitan Garden' shows how small scale public spaces become important alternatives in a worldwide process of urbanisation. This book offers possibilities to experience (smaller) rest spaces on the scale of human and physical perception. The garden is the classical example in making a landscape expressive and can structure urban conditions at the same time. With six prototypes: The Tofuku-ji Hojo gardens in Kyoto (1938), St. Catherine's College Quadrangle in Oxford (1959), Paley Park in Manhattan (1967), de Reflection Garden, Seattle (1979), the Jardin de Crazannes Garden and Jardin des Oiseaux, along the motorway in France (1993), and the Wasserkrater garden in Bad Oeynhausen in Germany (1997).

Hidden Landscapes

Hidden Landscapes by Saskia de Wit

'The Metropolitan Garden' shows how small scale public spaces become important alternatives in a worldwide process of urbanisation. This book offers possibilities to experience (smaller) rest spaces on the scale of human and physical perception. The garden is the classical example in making a landscape expressive and can structure urban

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