The Vital Landscape explores the arrival of the biological sciences
- most notably the sciences oflife entailed in studies of botany
and zoology, ecology and evolutionary science, physiology and
psychology - in the nineteenth century and their impact on
architecture and landscape architecture in Great Britain.
Specifically, the book explores the idea of the contrived or
artificial environment as an object of both scientific speculation
and aesthetic reflection. Unlike specialist histories of biological
science or environmental thought, this book is unique in locating
one source for present-day concerns for the environment and human
well-being in debates over proper housing and the growing
popularity of domestic and public gardens in the nineteenth
century. The book skilfully interweaves architecture and garden
history, the history and philosophy of science, plant and animal
physiology and human psychology, works of literature, popular
science and domestic economy in a story that opens new
opportunities for the study of architecture and gardens.
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