Machine generated contents note: ch. 11 Modest interventions in London's inner Royal Parks. Visiting landscape -- Social activities -- Egalitarianism -- Urban parkland -- Spacious outdoor behaviour -- Children out of doors -- The green agenda for mental health -- ch. 2 Perception of Landscape -- Outdoor space and little humans -- Sensory responses -- The mechanism of seeing -- The geometry of views -- Forecasting visual impact of structures -- The modern picturesque -- Modern landscape design -- ch. 3 Microclimates in Britain -- The climate of the British Isles -- Regional climatic variety -- Sunlight and shadow -- Shelter from wind -- Rainwater -- Outdoors in the British Isles -- ch. 4 Movement Through Landscape on Foot -- Movement routes -- Parking cars -- National Botanic Garden of Wales, Carmarthenshire -- Aberglasney, Carmarthenshire -- Wisley, Surrey -- The Serpentine Lido, Hyde Park, London -- Rural footpaths: Kynance Cove, Cornwall -- ch. 5 Restoring Eighteenth-Century Designed Landscapes -- The `English landscape style' -- On restoring English landscape parks -- Castle Hill Park, Devon -- Rousham Garden, Oxfordshire -- Lancelot `Capability' Brown -- Croome Court, Worcestershire -- The design of still water -- Chillington Park, Staffordshire -- Blenheim Park, Oxfordshire -- Cadland, Hampshire -- Summary -- ch. 6 Rural Parks and Lakes in the Twentieth Century -- Campden House, Gloucestershire -- Castletown Cox, Ireland -- Testbourne, Hampshire -- Reservoirs -- Brenig reservoir, Mynydd Hiraethog, Denbighshire -- Roadford reservoir, Devon -- A pumped storage project at Tintwistle and the Dark Peak `wilderness' -- Flood plain schemes: Wallingford Arts Park Gallery, Oxfordshire, and Schloss Rheda sidestream, Germany -- ch. 7 Mistaken For Nature -- The natural environment -- Knole Park, Kent -- Pare Dinefwr, Carmarthenshire -- Trees -- Garth Foel -- Vernacular landscape -- Natural beauty -- ch. 8 Holes and Hills -- Contemporary needs -- Holes -- Glensanda, Loch Linnhe, West Scotland -- Quarries for Hepworth's, Yorkshire -- Quarries for Castle Cement: Bellman near Clitheroe, Lancashire, and Ketton, Rutland -- Hills -- Gale Common Hill, near Selby, Yorkshire -- Pitstone Quarry 2, Buckinghamshire -- New Underground Operations Centre, Bradenham, Buckinghamshire -- University mounts at York University and UEA -- ch. 9 Artworks and Buildings in Landscape -- White Horse Hill, Berkshire Downs -- The Freud statue in Hampstead -- Visiting Stonehenge, Wiltshire -- Restoration of cairns and tumuli at Llyn Brenig -- Landscape dynamics of building -- Building with the ground: Mousyiri and the New House, Shilton -- Building in the ground: Brenig outlet works; kiosk on Snowdon -- Building on the ground: Youlbury House; the Serpentine Gallery; University of York -- Ebrington Tower, Castle Hill Park, Devon -- ch. 10 Urban Skylines and Views -- Open skies over cities -- The Edinburgh study of skylines and views -- Key features of long views -- Selection of viewpoints in Edinburgh -- Geometric analysis -- Conclusion of Edinburgh skyline study -- New building respecting the context of Edinburgh -- The sky above London -- Middle distance views of the dome of St Paul's -- Long-distance viewing corridors across London -- Design of the sky space around St James's Park, London -- The view of Horse Guards from St James's Park bridge -- Falsification by designations and images -- Secluded urban parkland and open sky -- sky contour plan -- ch. 11 Cities as Urban Landscape -- Cities as landscape -- Cities related to mountains and hills -- Cities related to water -- Urban parks and spaces -- Inner London's Royal Parks -- their value and history -- Modest interventions in London's inner Royal Parks.
Summary:
"The art of landscape architecture is in need of description and illustration in the broad comprehensive terms adopted by this book. Ideas and techniques of naturalistic landscape design are explored in eleven chapters, mainly illustrated by the author's own projects from before the era of digital presentation. Description of design processes is sometimes broadened into anecdotes arising from a working life. A modernised form of the naturalistic landscape design approach invented in England in the eighteenth century is shown still to be relevant for contemporary life. The first four chapters discuss human response to landscape and to being outdoors in the British Isles, concluding with examples of design organised by understanding how people move on foot. The eighteenth century naturalistic English landscape style is then explored through a series of historic restoration projects, followed by twentieth century projects for rural parks and lakes, a direct evolution from this tradition. Discussion of the idea of man-made projects moving from rural settings to cities as urban landscape. One chapter analyses urban views and skylines and how these can be safeguarded. The sweeping scope of the book displays the breadth of landscape architecture." -- provided by publisher.
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