Arnold Berleant, Living in the Landscape (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1997) ISBN 0-7006-0811-7.

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Living in the Landscape develops an aesthetic critique of environment in both concrete and theoretical directions. It provides an introduction to environmental aesthetics, identifying the kinds of experience, meanings, and values it involves, and describing its historical sources and the areas and issues with which it is concerned. The book develops an extended critical analysis of Disney World and elaborates a theoretical basis for the negative aesthetic criticism of environment. Living in the Landscape extends the scope of environmental values to include aesthetic education, body and environment, the aesthetics of community, environmental creativity, and sacred aesthetic environments. Underlying these discussions is the idea of environmental continuity, through which the book explores the forms of environmental interconnections from the body to architecture, place, the educational process, and community.

Table of Contents

Chapter One Aesthetics and Environment
Chapter Two An Emerging Aesthetics of Environment
Chapter Three Deconstructing Disney World
Chapter Four The Human Touch and the Beauty of Nature
Chapter Five Aesthetic Function
Chapter Six Environment and the Body
Chapter Seven Architecture and the Aesthetics of Continuity
Chapter Eight Education as Aesthetic
Chapter Nine Aesthetics and Community
Chapter Ten Reflections on a Reflection: Some Thoughts on Environmental Creativity
Chapter Eleven Sacred Environments