Gardening History: Second Edition

Author: Youyong
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Publish Date: 2006-08-01
Features: To meet the teaching needs of the "History of Landscape Architecture" course for higher vocational normal education and general agriculture and forestry colleges, the Agricultural Technology Higher Normal Education Work Committee commissioned Professor Youyong of Hebei Vocational and Technical Normal University to write the "Outline for Writing" of the textbook "History of Landscape Architecture." He organized teachers from nine other vocational and technical higher normal education institutions and higher agriculture and forestry colleges to participate in the writing. The Agricultural Technology Higher Normal Education Textbook Construction Guidance Committee reviewed and approved the outline and manuscript, considering that it had innovative content and system construction:
1. Clear hierarchy: Each chapter on Chinese classical gardens consists of three parts: a brief history, classic gardens, and garden characteristics.
2. Emphasis on key points: Among countless landscape masterpieces at home and abroad, this book focuses on their representative works—classic gardens, highlighting domestic classical gardens while providing an overview of foreign classical gardens.
3. Concise language: Faced with the rich diversity of domestic and foreign gardens, the entire book is written in over 400,000 words.
4. Comprehensive content: The textbook not only includes the history of Chinese gardens but also provides an overview of foreign garden history, as well as summaries of modern and contemporary gardens at home and abroad, and the development trends of global landscape architecture.
5. Rich illustrations: Over 40 color illustrations and more than 180 black-and-white images are interspersed throughout the text. Additionally, difficult characters are annotated with pinyin, and difficult terms are explained.
This textbook is distinctive and an invaluable specialized resource in the field of landscape architecture history. It is not only suitable for undergraduate landscape architecture education in vocational and technical higher normal education institutions but also for general higher agriculture and forestry colleges, tourism undergraduate programs, and other related disciplines. It also holds reference value for landscape designers and enthusiasts.