Protected Vista

<i><br/><br/><p>The Protected Vista</i> draws a historical lineage from the eighteenth-century picturesque to present-day planning policy highlighting how the values embedded within familiar views have developed over time through appropriation by diverse groups for cultural and political purposes. </p><br/><br/><p></p><br/><br/><p>The book examines the intellectual construction of the protected vista questioning the values entrenched within the view by whom and how they are observed and disseminated to reveal how these views have been and continue to be part of a changing historical and political narrative. With a deeper knowledge and understanding of the shifting values in urban views we will be better equipped to make decisions surrounding their protection in our urban centres. The book identifies the origins of current view protection policy in the aesthetic convention of the picturesque drawing on a range of illustrated examples in the UK the US Australia Canada and South Africa to serve as a useful reference for students researchers and academics in architecture architectural conservation landscape and urban planning. </p>