Experiential Landscapes: A Design Language for People, Space and Place Book

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