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Author(s): Michael Hough
Why do modern cities, suburbs, and industrial and farming landscapes all tend to look alike despite their regional settings? In this generously illustrated and provocative book, a landscape architect argues that the monotony of the modern landscape is a reflection of indifference on the part of society to the diversity inherent in ecological systems and in human communities. In case studies drawn from all parts of the world--Turkey and Hong Kong to northern England and Edinburgh, to Kentucky and Oregon, to Ontario and Manitoba--Michael Hough shows how build environments work and what designers can do to maintain the clearly identifiable differences between one place and another.
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General Fields
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- : Yale University Press
- : 0.468
- : 29 January 1992
- : 1.305 Centimeters X 18.2 Centimeters X 25.4 Centimeters
- : books
Special Fields
- : Michael Hough
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 712
- : 240