Journal Archive
February 2007 Issue
Romance and desire
The expansion of industrial capitalism, factories and mass production has degraded and despoiled the environment. This was the drive behind the 18th century Romantic movement, but the 21st century analogy is striking. The Romantics hailed exalted nature, celebrating the irregular, strange and fantastic, primitive and untamed. Then came the Modernist drive to crush the movement and the world was soon in thrall to science and thoughts of progress. Now the ground is shifting and the spirit of the Romantics is once again influencing the theory and practice of landscape architecture. This issue is dedicated to the new romantic vanguard.
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Natural selection
Helen Phillips, chief executive of Natural England, talks to Julia Thrift about getting the public out into the countryside. New Romantics
After post-Modernism, what comes next? Tim Richardson offers a reinterpretation of a historical ideal, with the potential to unite ecological and conceptual desires. Small is beautiful
Professor Richard Weston explores the world of microlandscapes and the extraordinary images they produce. He also considers some of their exciting future applications. 