01139nam a2200265Ia 450000100070000000500170000700700070002400800410003102000180007204000080009004100080009805000220010608200110012810000240013924500310016326000510019430000250024550000200027050400410029050504290033165000340076065000250079465000320081965000220085133152320170601154324.0ta    150526s1998       a   fr     001 0 eng    a9780300082944  aBEA0 aeng00aSB472.S685b1998.002712.211 aSpirn, Anne Whiston14aThe language of landscape.  aNew Haven, Conn.bYale University Pressc1998.  a326 p.bill.c24 cm.  aIncludes index.  aIncludes bibliographical references.0 aThis book combines poetry and pragmatism to teach the language of landscape. Anne Whiston Spirn argues that the language of landscape exists with its own grammar and metaphors, and that we imperil ourselves by failing to learn to read and speak this language. To understand the meanings of landscape, our habitat, is to see the world differently and to enable ourselves to avoid profound environmental and aesthetic mistakes00aLandscape architecture2Local00aHuman ecology2Local 0aLandscape assessment2Local 0aLandscapes2Local