Magic, myth, and nature: landscapes of prehistoric, early ancient, and contemporary peoples.
Nature, art, reason: landscape design in the classical world.
Visions of paradise: landscape design as symbol and metaphor.
Classicism reborn: landscape ideals of the renaissance in Italy and France.
Power and glory: the genius of Le Notre and the grandeur of the baroque.
Expanding horizons: court and city in the European grand manner.
Sense and sensibility: landscapes of the age of reason, romanticism, and revolution.
Nature as muse: the gardens of China and Japan.
Expanding cities and new social institutions: the democratization of landscape design.
Industrial age civilization: birth of the modern city, beaux-arts America, and national parks.
Landscape as aesthetic experience: the arts and crafts movement and the revival of the formal garden.
Social utopias: modernism and regional planning.
A new landscape aesthetic: the modernist garden.
Home, commerce, and entertainment: landscapes of consumerism.
Holding on and letting grow: landscape as preservation, conservation, art, sport, and theory.
The weaving of place and the geography of flows: landscape as bodily experience and vernacular expression.
