The Venetian City Garden: Place, Typology, and Perception

by John Dixon Hunt

No city has played a more seminal role in the development of "landscape" as a concept than has Venice. In a city where the land and gardens are reclaimed from a lagoon environment whose ecology is in jeopardy today, they are the very basis of life, dwelling, and culture. This book develops a typology of gardens distinguished by their predominantly small scale, all of which work with essential dimensions of landscape architecture: private and public...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3764389435
• ISBN13: 9783764389437
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Birkhauser
• Length: 223 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.3" x 11.5"