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| Ecology has been regarded as merely a pragmatic and utilitarian knowledge in applying it to environmental planning. Whilst such a view causes dilemma to move forwards a more fundamentally recognition in facing the increasingly divergent value involved with environment. Environmental thinking proved to be relevant to the shaping of man-made landscape and ascribed to the environmental deterioration is the root to the various orientations to landscape design. The course links environmental philosophy with landscape creating in the hope of providing a more fundamental and consistent design vision for landscape profession. Sessions of the course can be categorized as
1. Roots to the environmental philosophy of the West and Oriental
2. Classical and modern environmental philosophy of the West
3. Nature aesthetics of the West and Orient
4. A comparison of the environmental vision between the West and the Orient
5. Environmental philosophy and environmental shaping
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