Download or read book Rational Landscapes and Humanistic Geography written by E. C. Relph and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1981 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Relph has written the kind of book that landscapes and landscape analysis have needed for some time. He has undertaken a study of the several paradoxes inherent in the human reaction to the humanized landscape and has come up with a reasonably clear and thoughtful analysis of what humankind has done to itself as it manipulates the natural environment into rational landscape....The book is a gem.'