Out of Place - Restoring Identity to the Regional Landscape (Review copy, 1st Printing)

Hough, Michael

ISBN 10: 0300045107 / ISBN 13: 9780300045109

Published by Yale University Press, 1990

About this Item

230pp, with b&w images throughout the text. A Fine (As New) publisher review copy (slip laid-in) of the 1st Edition in a Near Fine unclipped dust wrapper which displays only faint hints of surface wear. Please see 8 pictures attached for a closer look.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1771346531213

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Out of Place - Restoring Identity to the Regional Landscape (Review copy, 1st Printing)
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300045107
• ISBN 13: 9780300045109
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

About this title

Synopsis

Why do modern cities, suburbs, and industrial and farming landscapes all tend to look alike despite their regional settings? In this generously illustrated and provocative book, a landscape architect argues that the monotony of the modern landscape is a reflection of indifference on the part of society to the diversity inherent in ecological systems and in human communities. In case studies drawn from all parts of the world-Turkey and Hong Kong to northern England and Edinburgh, to Kentucky and Oregon, to Ontario and Manitoba-Michael Hough shows how build environments work and what designers can do to maintain the clearly identifiable differences between one place and another.

From the Back Cover

Why do modern cities, suburbs, and industrial and farming landscapes all tend to look alike despite their regional settings? In this provocative and generously illustrated book, a landscape architect argues that the monotony of the modern landscape is a reflection of society's indifference to the diversity inherent in ecological systems and in human communities.