Environmental aesthetics explores the meaning and influence of environmental perception and experience on human life. Arguing for the idea that environment is fully integrated and continuous with us, this book explores the aesthetic dimensions of the human-environment continuum in both theoretical terms and concrete situations.

Arnold Berleant is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Long Island University, and the author of "The Aesthetic Field and Art and Engagement" (Temple).

Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Environment as a Challenge to Aesthetics
2. The Aesthetic Sense of Environment
3. Descriptive Aesthetics
4. Scenes from a Connecticut Landscape: Four Studies in Descriptive Aesthetics
5. Aesthetic Paradigms for an Urban Ecology
6. Cultivating an Urban Aesthetic
7. Designing Outer Space
8. The Museum of Art as a Participatory Environment
9. Environmental Criticism
10. Environment as an Aesthetic Paradigm
11. The Aesthetics of Art and Nature
12. Reclaiming the American Landscape
Notes
Index