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New York : Columbia University Press, 1990

xiv, 260 s. : il. ; 23 cm

ISBN 0-231-07395-X (brož.) ISBN !978-0-231-07395-0 (chyb.)

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contents // acknowledgments ? ix // preface to the morningside edition, xi // CHAPTER ONE // introduction, 1 // CHAPTER TWO // common traits in perception: the senses, 5 // Vision. Hands and tactile sense. Hearing. Smell. Perceiving with all the senses. Perception and activity. // CHAPTER THREE // common psychological structures and responses, 13 // Rationalization. Scale of human perception. Segmentation. Binary oppositions. Resolution of contradictions. // Substances and cosmological schemata. // Harmonious whole, binary opposition, and cosmological schemata. Symbolism and cosmological schemata. // Color psychology and symbolism. // Spatial psychology and symbolism. // contents // CHAPTER FOUR // ethnocentrism, symmetry, and space, 30 // Ethnocentrism. // Ethnocentrism and cosmic diagrams among nonliterate peoples. Chinese ethnocentrism. Early Greek maps. // T-O (orbis terrarum) maps. Europe at the world’s center. The center of the land hemisphere. Exceptions. // CHAPTER FIVE // personal worlds: individual differences and preferences, 45 // Physiological individuality. // Temperament, talent, and attitudes. Sex. Age. // CHAPTER six // culture, experience, and environmental attitudes, 59 // Culture and perception. Sex roles and perception. Visitor and native. // Explorers and settlers at the pioneer fringe. // Indians and Anglo-Americans in New Mexico. Changes in environmental attitude: mountain. // CHAPTER SEVEN // environment, perception, and world views, 75 // Environment

and perception. // Perceptual acuity and the challenge of harsh environments. Environment and world view. // Riverine environments, cosmology, and architecture. // CHAPTER EIGHT // topophilia and environment, 92 // Topophilia. Aesthetic appreciation. Physical contact. Health and topophilia. Familiarity and attachment. Patriotism. Urbanization and attitude to the countryside. Wilderness. // contents // CHAPTER NINE // environment and topophilia, 113 // Environment and Elysium. Environments of persistent appeal. Greek environment and topophilia. // Landscape and landscape painting in Europe. // Chinese environment and topophilia. // CHAPTER TEN // from cosmos to landscape, 129 // Stratified cosmos. Nature, landscape, and scenery. The axial transformation of the European world view. Comparison with Chinese attitudes. // Architecture and the landscape garden: toward spatial extension and the visual response. Symbolism and sacredness: premodem responses. Cyclical time and linear time. // CHAPTER ELEVEN // the ideal city and symbols of transcendence, 150 // Emergence of the city ideal. // Symbols of cosmos and urban forms. // Architectural symbols of transcendence. // Brasilia—a modem ideal city. // CHAPTER TWELVE // physical setting and urban life styles, 173 // Environments and life styles. Ch’ang-an and Hang-chou. Athens and Rome. The medieval city. // Georgian and Victorian street scenes. // The automobile city: Los Angeles. // CHAPTER THIRTEEN // american cities: symbolism,

imagery, perception, 192 // Symbols and metaphors. Specific urban symbols. // Booster imagery—city nicknames. Imageability. // Image, experience, and class. The urban neighborhood. The view from below. Recapitulations. // contents // CHAPTER FOUTEEN // suburbs and new towns: the search for environment, 225 // Suburb—“beyond the wall.” // Suburb—reaction to the city. The growth of suburbs. Appearance and changes in appearance. // Suburban values and ideals. // Model villages and new towns. // CHAPTER FIFTEEN // summary and conclusions, 245 // index, 249