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The language of landscape

This study suggests that the language of landscape exists with its own syntax, grammar, and metaphors, and that we imperil ourselves by failing to learn and speak this language. Spirn examines urban, rural and natural landscapes, and discusses the thought of renowned landscape authors.
Print Book, English, 2000
Yale University Press, New Haven, 2000
320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780300082944, 0300082940
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