TY  - BOOK
AU  - Spirn,Anne Whiston
TI  - The language of landscape
SN  - 9780300082944
AV  - SB472.S685 1998.
PY  - 1998///
CY  - New Haven, Conn.
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Landscape architecture
KW  - Local
KW  - Human ecology
KW  - Landscape assessment
KW  - Landscapes
N1  - Includes index; Includes bibliographical references; This 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 mistakes
ER  -