The Landscape of Man: Shaping the Environment from Prehistory to the Present Day

The seminal text on landscape architecture from prehistory until the present day, now in an updated edition and illustrated in full color.

Now available in a new, updated edition, The Landscape of Man is a formative study on the history of landscape architecture. From small gardens to megacities, humans have always molded their environment to express or symbolize ideas—­power, order, comfort, harmony, pleasure, and mystery, to name a few. In 1975, authors Geoffrey and Susan Jellicoe linked t...