Out of Place: Restoring Identity to the Regional Landscape (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780300052237)

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.

Author: Michael Hough
ISBN-10: 0300052235
ISBN-13: 9780300052237
Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/29/1992
Pages: 244
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 10.06h x 7.01w x 0.54d