Arnold Berleant
The Aesthetics of Environment (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992)
ISBN 0-87722-993-7

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Environmental aesthetics is an emerging discipline that explores the meaning and influence of environmental perception and experience on human life. Arguing for the idea that environment is not merely a setting for people but is fully integrated and continuous with us, The Aesthetics of Environment explores the aesthetic dimensions of the human-environmental continuum in both theoretical terms and concrete situations. From outer space to the museum, from architecture to landscape, from city to countryside to wilderness, this book discovers in the aesthetic perception of environment the reciprocity that constitutes both person and place.

Table of Contents

Ch. 1 Environment as a Challenge to Aesthetics
Ch. 2 The Aesthetic Sense of Environment
Ch. 3 Descriptive Aesthetics
Ch. 4 Scenes from a Connecticut Landscape: Four Studies in Descriptive Aesthetics
Ch. 5 Aesthetic Paradigms for an Urban Ecology
Ch. 6 Cultivating an Urban Aesthetic
Ch. 7 Designing Outer Space
Ch. 8 The Museum of Art as a Participatory Environment
Ch. 9 Environmental Criticism
Ch.10 Environment as an Aesthetic Paradigm
Ch.11 The Aesthetics of Art and Nature
Ch.12 Reclaiming the American Landscape