Includes bibliographical references and index.

Judging architecture -- What titles don't tell -- What music isn't and how to teach it -- Environmental aesthetics -- Art, nature, environment -- The re-shaping of experience -- Two ways in the landscape -- The art in knowing a landscape -- Scenic beauty in a global context -- Forestry aesthetics -- Distant cities: thoughts on an aesthetics of urbanism -- Ideas for an ecological aesthetics -- Nature and habitation in a Chinese garden -- Implications -- Aesthetics without purpose -- The legacy of Dewey's aesthetics -- Evolutionary naturalism and the abandonment of dualism -- The aesthetic politics of environment -- The changing meaning of landscape -- Beauty and the way of modern life.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.