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• Title:Slow growth on the art of landscape architecture / Hal Moggridge.
  
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• Author/Creator:Moggridge, Hal, 1936- architect.
  
• Published/Created:London : Unicorn, 2017.
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: SB470.55.G7 M64 2017
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Moggridge, Hal, 1936-
  Colvin & Moggridge.
  Landscape architecture--Great Britain.
  Landscape architecture--Great Britain--History.
  
• Description:351 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color), plans (some color) ; 30 cm
  
• 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.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781910787427 (hardback)
  1910787426 (hardback)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 People Out of Doors
  Visiting landscape
  Social activities
  Egalitarianism
  Urban parkland
  Spacious outdoor behaviour
  Children out of doors
  green agenda for mental health
  ch. 2 Perception of Landscape
  Outdoor space and little humans
  Sensory responses
  mechanism of seeing
  geometry of views
  Forecasting visual impact of structures
  modern picturesque
  Modern landscape design
  ch. 3 Microclimates in Britain
  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
  Serpentine Lido, Hyde Park, London
  Rural footpaths: Kynance Cove, Cornwall
  ch. 5 Restoring Eighteenth-Century Designed Landscapes
  `English landscape style'
  On restoring English landscape parks
  Castle Hill Park, Devon
  Rousham Garden, Oxfordshire
  Lancelot `Capability' Brown
  Croome Court, Worcestershire
  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
  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
  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
  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
  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
  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
  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.