Cover; ENVIRONMENTAL AESTHETICS: ideas, politics and planning; Copyright; CONTENTS; PLATES, FIGURES AND TABLES; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PREFACE; 1 INTRODUCTION; 1.1 ENVIRONMENTAL AESTHETICS; 1.2 A SHORT HISTORY OF AESTHETICS; 1.3 THE ORIGINS OF THE AESTHETIC IMPULSE; 1.4 THE SENSES; 2 HUMANISTS; 2.1 THE HUMANIST APPROACH; 2.2 A HISTORY OF LANDSCAPE TASTE; 2.3 LANDSCAPES; 2.4 SOME NATIONAL CONTRASTS; 3 EXPERIMENTALISTS; 3.1 THE EXPERIMENTALIST APPROACH; 3.2 PROPERTIES OF ENVIRONMENTS AND PERSONS; 3.3 SCENERY IS GOOD FOR YOU; 3.4 METHODOLOGICAL PROBLEMS; 4 ACTIVISTS; 4.1 LITERARY AND DESIGN ACTIVISM
Environmental Aesthetics is a comprehensive introduction. It includes a history of aesthetics, discussing the psychology of human-environment relations, and artistic influences on the city and analysing the roles of policy and planning.