Visual and Spatial Structure of Landscapes

Tadahiko Higuchi, Charles Terry

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Japanese

MIT Press
06 July 1988

Landscape art & architecture

Series: MIT Press

In this imaginative and generously illustrated book, Tadahiko Higuchi applies a methodology to landscape that is similar to that developed by Kevin Lynch for investigating the extent to which urban settings are legible and ""imageable"" to their inhabitants. He identifies features such as landmarks, boundaries, paths, and nodes that enable people moving through a landscape to piece together a reliable mental map of their surroundings, beginning with major structural elements and filling in with successively finer detail.

By: Tadahiko Higuchi
Translated by: Charles Terry
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 279mm, Width: 216mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 544g
ISBN: 9780262580946
ISBN 10: 0262580942
Series: MIT Press
Pages: 228
Publication Date: 06 July 1988
Recommended Age: From 18
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Tadahiko Higuchi is Associate Professor of Environmental Engineering at Yamanashi University.

Reviews for Visual and Spatial Structure of Landscapes

Higuchi's The Visual and Spatial Structure of Landscapes is an important book. In a sense, it is really two books: in the first section, he attempts to apply Lynch's concept of perceptual analysis not to the city, but to the landscape; in the second section, he advances a typology of historical landscape, and explicates its role in Japanese history and spatial design... a classic work that bears reading and studying by those involved with landscape from a design or from a historical/interpretive point of view. Marc Treib Design Book Review