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• Title:Hidden landscapes : the metropolitan garden as a multi-sensory expression of place / Saskia de Wit.
  
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• Variant Title:Metropolitan garden as a multi-sensory expression of place
  
• Author/Creator:Wit, Saskia de, author.
  
• Published/Created:Amsterdam : Architectura & Natura, [2018]
  ©2018
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: SB472.7 .W58 2018
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Urban landscape architecture.
  Urban gardens.
  Public spaces.
  
• Description:431 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), charts, maps, plans ; 24 cm
  
• 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).
  
• Local note:UBC Library has a copy donated by the British Columbia Society of Landscape Architects.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9789461400611 (paperback)
  9461400616
  
• Contents:The metropolitan garden
  The garden as a scene
  The garden as a portal
  The garden as a stage
  Experiencing place and nature in the metropolitan landscape.