The Landscape Of Man - Shaping The Environment From Prehistory To The Present Day

Taking twenty-eight 'cultures' from ancient mesopotamia to the post-renaissance west, the authors first summarize the social and intellectual background, then describe how this is expressed in in terms of landscape, and finally demonstrate their case in a series of picture spreads showing what actually happened. the final section – about a fifth of the whole – is devoted to planning since 1945.