- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Reaktion Books (26 Sep 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 186189161X
- ISBN-13: 978-1861891617
- Product Dimensions: 24.8 x 18.6 x 1.8 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 531,009 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'One of the most thought-provoking books of the year.' --The Independent
'A richly humane and engrossing book . . . a work that is warm, compassionate, intelligent and thought-provoking.' --Building Design
'A remarkably beautiful book . . . As a long-time professor of worship, I spent many years talking with seminarians and pastors about theological and liturgical aspects of rites related to death. Last Landscapes shows that such conversations would be enriched if they were to address topics that Worpole discusses with such sensitivity and insight.' --Anglican Theological Review
'Reading this book is a pleasure. The book is beautifully illustrated with photography by Larraine Worpole . . . It spends time with architectural and landscape history, makes tracks through sociology and economics, ponders theological and philosophical positions, and lingers before some remarkable aesthetic achievements.' --The Twentieth Century Society Journal
'A richly humane and engrossing book . . . a work that is warm, compassionate, intelligent and thought-provoking.' --Building Design
'A remarkably beautiful book . . . As a long-time professor of worship, I spent many years talking with seminarians and pastors about theological and liturgical aspects of rites related to death. Last Landscapes shows that such conversations would be enriched if they were to address topics that Worpole discusses with such sensitivity and insight.' --Anglican Theological Review
'Reading this book is a pleasure. The book is beautifully illustrated with photography by Larraine Worpole . . . It spends time with architectural and landscape history, makes tracks through sociology and economics, ponders theological and philosophical positions, and lingers before some remarkable aesthetic achievements.' --The Twentieth Century Society Journal
BUILDING DESIGN, November 28, 2003
A richly humane and engrossing book which incorporates a huge range of sources. . . warm, compassionate, intelligent and thought-provoking.
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This review is from: Last Landscapes: The Architecture of the Cemetery in the West: Death and the Architecture of the Cemetery in the West (Paperback)
For landscape architects, historians and planners, this book is an excellent study of burials and memorials in Western cultures. It helped me see U.S. cemeteries and their art in a greater context. Much of the book discusses how burial/memorial places relate to daily life, and speculates how such places will change along with changes in Western society.
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