Rational Landscapes and Humanistic GeographyRowman & Littlefield, 1981 - 231 pages 'Relph has written the kind of book that landscapes and landscape analysis have needed for some time. He has undertaken a study of the several paradoxes inherent in the human reaction to the humanized landscape and has come up with a reasonably clear and thoughtful analysis of what humankind has done to itself as it manipulates the natural environment into rational landscape....The book is a gem.' |
Contents
INTRODUCTION LANDSCAPES AND THE AMBIVALENCE OF HUMANISM | 13 |
THE INTERRELATED HISTORIES OF THE IDEAS OF LANDSCAPE AND HUMANISM | 22 |
THE CHARACTER OF MODERN LANDSCAPES | 63 |
VARIETIES OF HUMANISM | 109 |
HUMANISTIC AND SCIENTISTS GEOGRAPHIES | 128 |
DEFICIENCIES OF HUMANISM | 144 |
FROM HUMANISM TO ENVIRONMENTAL HUMILITY | 161 |
THE INDIVIDUALITY OF PLACES | 168 |
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Page 11 - No changing of place at a hundred miles an hour, nor making of stuffs a thousand yards a minute, will make us one whit stronger, happier, or wiser. There was always more in the world than men could see, walked they ever so slowly ; they will see it no better for going fast. And they will at last, and...