 |
Week 1: The Gardens of China and Japan
Study Questions
Links: A
Visual Sourcebook of Chinese Civilization: Gardens, The Japanese Garden, Kinkakuji
Images:
Japanese Gardens, Chinese
Gardens |
 |
Week 2: The Effect of Democracy, Science, Technology, and History upon Landscape Design
Study Questions
Links: "A
Visit to the House and Garden of the Late A. J. Downing"
Images: Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker,
Kew Gardens, Andrew
Jackson Downing |
 |
Week 3: The Modern Metropolis: Landscape
as Technology, Nature Conservation, and Public Spectacle
Study Questions
Links: Betsy
Rogers' Lecture on Central Park, Walter
Benjamin's New York
Images: Paris, The
City Beautiful Movement, Olmsted
in Boston, Olmsted in New York,
Olmsted's Private Commissions |
 |
Week 4: Landscape and Cityscape as
Aesthetic Experience: The Arts and Crafts Movement and the Revival of
the Formal Garden
Study Questions
Images: French Formal Garden Revival,
Italiante and Revival Gardens
in the UK, Italianate Gardens in
the United States, Arts and Crafts
Gardens in the United Kingdom |
 |
Week 6: The Regional Landscape as a
Planning Framework: Autonomous Vehicular Transportation Systems, Planned
Communities, and Mass Recreation in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
Study Questions
Links: Appalachian
Trail Website
Images: Urban Planning in England,
Urban Planning in France, Barcelona,
Le Corbusier, Frederick
Law Olmsted, Jr. |
 |
Week 8: The Modernist Garden
Study Questions
Images: Early 20th Century American Modernism, Thomas Dolliver Church, Modernist Garden Manuals, Daniel Urban Kiley, Roberto Burle Marx
|
 |
Week 9: The Landscape of Suburbia, the Shopping Mall, the Theme Park, Historic Preservation, the New Urbanism, and Environmentalism
Study Questions: Study Questions
Images: Landscape of Suburbia, etc.
Links: Seaside Website
|
 |
Week 10: Earthworks, Golf Courses, and Other Contemporary Landscapes
Study Questions
Images: Earthworks, Christo
|
