How is nature treated in contemporary culture—in landscape architecture, science, politics, planning, advertising, commerce, philosophy, and tourism? How have our attitudes toward and understandings of nature changed in recent years, due to the unprecedented ability of humans to manipulate and control nature? Is the idea of wilderness still valid? In what ways can landscape architects and other artists influence the state of nature? These are some of the issues considered in the essays that follow.
10: What is Nature Now? S/S 2000
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Table of Contents
Essays
Describing the World at the End of the Millenium
Designs Necessary and Sublime
Learning from Lutyens
Legacy at Risk
Nature Used and Abused
Smoky Mirrors and Unreflected Vampires
The Destitution of Space
The Persistence of the Picturesque
The Struggle of Dawning Intelligence
Three Trees
Time Incorporated
What Do We Make of Nature Now?
Reviews
Fundamentals of Building Construction by Edward Allen
FutureNatural edited by Robertson, Mash, Tickner, Bird, Curtis, and Putnam
Sidewalk Critic edited by Robert Wojtowicz
The Favored Circle by Garry Stevens
Towards a New Museum by Victoria Newhouse
