Experiential Landscape: An Approach to People, Place and Space

by Thwaites; Kevin

• ISBN13: 9780415340007
• ISBN10: 0415340004
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2007-01-23
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Expertly arguing that features of experiential potential in neighbourhood and community open space networks can be read from spatial characteristics, this key book investigates how a design methodology can be successfully applied to map, analyze and improve the design of neighbourhood and other community settings. Incorporating a review of key philosophical and theoretical themes, and offering a design vocabulary to help the designer develop a socially responsive approach, author Kevin Thwaites provides the reader with a greater understanding of the human-environment relationship.

Author Biography

Kevin Thwaites teaches and researches urban design and landscape architecture in the Department of Landscape, University of Sheffield Ian Simkins practises as a Chartered Landscape Architect and tutors urban design related subjects at the University of Sheffield

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. vii
A way of seeing	p. ix
The concept of experiential landscape	p. xi
Preface	p. xxiii
Human-environment relations	p. 1
Introduction	p. 1
A prevailing world view	p. 3
Enlightenment human-environment relations and the separation of humans from environmental experience	p. 3
The professionalisation of landscape design	p. 7
The rise and crisis of design methodology	p. 9
Summary	p. 12
An alternative world view	p. 15
Introduction	p. 15
The Romantic movement and Expressivism	p. 15
A human-environment dialectic	p. 17
Environmentalism and human-environment relations	p. 19
New science perspectives on human-environment relations	p. 21
Self-generation and the systems view of life	p. 26
Summary	p. 26
Landscape as place	p. 29
Theoretical origins of place	p. 31
The concept of experiential landscape	p. 35
Introduction	p. 35
Experiential and spatial dimensions	p. 39
An experiential dimension	p. 39
Spatial dimensions of experience	p. 43
The vocabulary of experiential landscape	p. 53
Centre	p. 55
Direction	p. 66
Transition	p. 69
Area	p. 72
Reading the experiential landscape	p. 79
Introduction	p. 79
Information gathering: specialist training and user experience	p. 81
Information recording	p. 94
Interpreting the experiential landscape	p. 99
Summary	p. 106
Reflections on geometry	p. 109
Mosaics of spatial experience	p. 112
Experiemic scale	p. 115
Enfolded place	p. 116
Conclusions	p. 131
The application of experiential landscape	p. 137
Introduction	p. 137
Reading the experiential landscape in residential settings	p. 139
Introduction	p. 139
The Piggeries, Frome, Somerset	p. 140
Friary's Court, Beverley, Yorkshire	p. 146
Poundbury, Dorchester, Dorset	p. 149
In search of the identity of Kirby Hill	p. 153
Introduction	p. 153
The role of experiential landscape	p. 155
The experiential landscape of Kirby Hill	p. 160
The identity of Kirby Hill	p. 162
Conclusions	p. 166
Experiential landscape analysis and design in schools	p. 169
Introduction	p. 169
Field work in schools	p. 170
Collective personality	p. 172
Exploring the personality of place at a primary school	p. 179
Differentiating sense of place in a nursery playground	p. 185
Exploring nested centres	p. 189
Experiential landscape in the Calls and Riverside, Leeds	p. 195
The Calls experience	p. 199
Design concept development	p. 210
References	p. 219
Index	p. 225
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