Compassionate Landscape (Heritage)

ISBN: 0802062695

Author: Carver, Humphrey

Condition: New

From the top of the Clent Hills in England, one can look out overthe Black Country to the north and the Forest of Arden to the south. As a boyHumphrey Carver looked at these two landscapes - one synonymous with the harshugliness and dehumanization brought by industry, the other with idyllic harmonybetween man and land. At the start of the depression Carver came to Canada where, inmany and varied ways, he has tried to bring the qualities of humanity and compassionto the landscape shaped by the man. His career has involved him in the initiationof, and contact with, almost everything that has happened in the last forty years inthe field of housing, planning, design, and urban and community action. This book isa history of the development of an awareness, of institutions, and of policies onthe shaping of the man-made environment. It is however more than that. Mr Carverdescribes his own life and sensibilities, his family and his colleagues, with atrained and compassionate eye and a taut and careful prose. Rarely does oneencounter an autobiography of such perceptive and satisfying craftsmanship. Thosewho know him will not be surprised; those who do not will be delighted to discover awork of such a warm and sympathetic humanity. Humphrey Carver has a message for usall.