Elizabeth Barlow Rogers

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Table of Contents

• Foreword
• Introduction
  

  The Shaping of Space; the Meaning of Place

• Chapter One
  

  Magic, Myth, and Nature: Landscapes of Prehistoric, Early Ancient, and Contemporary Peoples

  1. Caves and Circles: Sustaining Life and Discerning Cosmic Order
  2. Architectural Mountains and the Earth's First Cities: Landscape as Urban Power in Early Ancient Civilizations
  3. Ritual and Landscape in Prehistoric Greece: Earth Goddess and the Mighty Lords
  4. Cosmology in the Landscapes of the Americas: Spirits of Earth and Sky
• Chapter Two
  

  Nature, Art, and Reason: Landscape Design in the Classical World

  1. Gods and Humans: The New Contract with Nature
  2. Polis and Acropolis: City and Temple in the Greek Landscape
  3. Empire: Hellenism and Roman Urbanism
  4. Garden and Villa: The Art of Landscape in Ancient Rome
• Chapter Three
  

  Visions of Paradise: Landscape Design as Symbol and Metaphor

  1. Paradise as a Literary Topos: Gardens of God and Gardens of Love
  2. Paradise on Earth: The Islamic Garden
  3. Paradise Contained: Walled Cities and Walled Gardens of the European Middle Ages
• Chapter Four
  

  Classicism Reborn: Landscape Ideals of the Renaissance in Italy and France

  1. Petrarch, Alberti, and Colonna: Humanism and the Landscape
  2. Bramante and the Rediscovery of Axial Planning: Gardens of Sixteenth-Century Italy
  3. Axial Planning on an Urban Scale: The Development of Renaissance Rome
  4. Currents of Fashion: The Transformation of the Italian Garden in France
  5. The Evolution of French Urbanization and Garden Style: Paris in the Time of Henry IV
• Chapter Five
  

  Power and Glory: The Genius of Le N™tre and the Grandeur of the Baroque

  1. The Making of Vaux-le-Vicomte and Versailles: AndrŽ Le N™tre
  2. The Garden as Theater: Italian Baroque and Rococo Gardens
• Chapter Six
  

  Expanding Horizons: Court and City in the European Grand Manner

  1. French and Italian Exports: The Application of Classical and Baroque Design Principles to Gardens in the Netherlands, England, Germany, and Beyond
  2. The Heroic City: Expressions of Classical and Baroque Urbanism
  3. Nature's Paradise: America in the Colonial and Federal Periods
• Chapter Seven
  

  Sense and Sensibility: Landscapes of the Age of Reason, Romanticism, and Revolution

  1. The Genius of the Place: Forging a New Landscape Style Through Literature, Art, and Theory
  2. Leaping the Fence: The Transformation of the English Landscape into a Pastoral Idyll with Political Meaning
  3. Remaking England: Capability Brown, Professional Improver
  4. Nature's Canvas: English Philosophers and Practitioners of the Picturesque
  5. Landscapes of Moral Virtue and Exotic Fantasy: The French Picturesque
  6. Designing Nature's Garden: The Landscapes of Thomas Jefferson
  7. The Landscape of Mind and Soul: Goethe and Wordsworth
• Chapter Eight
  

  Nature as Muse: The Gardens of China and Japan

  1. Mountains, Lakes, and Islands: Intimations of Immortality in the Chinese Garden
  2. Tea, Moss, and Stones: Temple and Palace Gardens of Japan
• Chapter Nine
  

  Expanding Cities and New Social Institutions: The Democratization of Landscape Design

  1. Botanical Science, the Gardenesque Style, and People's Parks: Landscape Design in Victorian England
  2. Redefining Rural America: The Influence of Andrew Jackson Downing
  3. Honoring History and Repose for the Dead: Commemorative Landscapes and Rural Cemeteries
  4. The New Metropolis: Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux as Park Builders and City Planners
• Chapter Ten
  

  Industrial Age Civilization: Birth of the Modern City, Beaux-Arts America, and National Parks

  1. Haussmann's Paris: Birth of the Modern City
  2. The City Beautiful: Monumental Urbanism in Beaux-Arts America
  3. America the Beautiful: The National Park System
• Chapter Eleven
  

  Landscape as Aesthetic Experience: The Arts and Crafts Movement and the Revival of the Formal Garden

  1. Modernity Challenged: Ruskin's Influence, the Past Revalued, and Italy's Long Shadow
  2. The Edwardian and Post-Edwardian English Garden: Aristocracy's Golden Afternoon and Twilight
  3. Design Synthesis: The End of the American Country Place Era
• Chapter Twelve
  

  Social Utopias: Modernism and Regional Planning

  1. Urban Expansion: Town Planning for the Machine Age in Britain and Continental Europe
  2. Greenbelt Towns or Suburbs?: Creating the American Metropolis
• Chapter Thirteen
  

  A New Landscape Aesthetic: The Modernist Garden

  1. Transitional Experimentation: Design Idioms of the Early Twentieth Century
  2. Abstract Art and the Functional Landscape: Gardens for Modern Living
• Chapter Fourteen
  

  Home, Commerce, and Entertainment: Landscapes of Consumerism

  1. A Home for the Family: The Landscape of Suburbia
  2. Commerce and Entertainment: Shopping Malls and Theme Parks
• Chapter Fifteen
  

  Holding On and Letting Grow: Landscape as Preservation, Conservation, Art, Sport, and Theory

  1. Preserving the Past: Place as Heritage, Identity, Tourist Landscape, and New Urbanist Community
  2. Conserving Nature: Landscape Design as Environmental Science and Art
  3. Earthworks, Golf Courses, Philosophical Models, and Poetic Metaphors: Landscape as Art Form, Sport, Deconstructivism, and Phenomenology
• Chapter Sixteen
  

  The weaving of place and The Geography of Flows: Landscape as Bodily Experience and Vernacular Expression

  1. Body and Space: The Weaving of Place
  2. Cultural Geography: The Loom of Landscape
• Glossary
• Bibliography
• Index
• Photograph Credits