Landscape: Pattern, Perception and Process [Hardcover]

Simon Bell (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0419203400 | ISBN-13: 978-0419203407 | Publication Date: September 15, 1999

Providing a fresh approach to the theory of design, Landscape: Pattern, Perception and Process synthesizes planning, design and ecology and shows a new view of where design can develop. The book brings together the work and subject areas of a range of disciplines including psychologists, philosophers, geologists, ecologists, cultural geographers, foresters, urban planners and landscape architects and synthesizes all these together. Since many landscape and environmental problems require multi-disciplinary approaches for their solution, this book demonstrates how the best integration can be achieved.
Highly illustrated, it contains examples from North America, Canada, Europe and Australasia. Glossary, references and further reading provide the reader with guidance and back-up resources.

Editorial Reviews

Review

'The book provides a good introduction to many of the recent theories on patterns in nature, and would provide an excellent starting point for further research.' - Landscape Design

'Bell includes recent concepts and provides detailed descriptions of up-to-date design methods ... this ecologically insightful book raises critical issues.' - Architectural Review

'This is a wide-ranging book which seeks to synthesize knowledge across disciplines as diverse as geomorphology, ecology, psychology and philosophical aesthetics.' - Landscape Research

Product Details

• Hardcover: 352 pages
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis (September 15, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0419203400
• ISBN-13: 978-0419203407
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 7.7 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,538,463 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Landscape - Patterns, Perception, and Process, January 28, 2007

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"jon" (Bozeman) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Landscape: Pattern, Perception and Process (Hardcover)

I bought this book for a class about two years ago, it was a not required, but my professor suggested it in addition to our required text. After the semester ended, the course was reformatted, and this book was not being bought back. This book sat on the shelf with others I've kept, decided to buy, or also have been left with until about November.

I really wish we had used the book, I wish that I had read it earlier because some of the design principles raised by Bell have dramatically helped to improve my work. I haven't finished the book yet, but it has helped me greatly to understand my own designs to explain them to others, as well as to form a starting point with the idea that humans have certain native proportions, angles, shapes, colors, and patterns that are perceived as beautiful. These concepts are necessary when you are involved in landscape architecture, and I'm very glad I ended up using this book.