{"product_id":"compassionate-landscape-9780802062697","title":"Compassionate Landscape","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Humphrey Carver\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Memoirs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the top of the Clent Hills in England, one can look out over \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ethe Black Country to the north and the Forest of Arden to the south. As a boy \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHumphrey Carver looked at these two landscapes - one synonymous with the harsh \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eugliness and dehumanization brought by industry, the other with idyllic harmony \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ebetween man and land. At the start of the depression Carver came to Canada where, in \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003emany and varied ways, he has tried to bring the qualities of humanity and compassion \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eto the landscape shaped by the man. His career has involved him in the initiation \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eof, and contact with, almost everything that has happened in the last forty years in \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ethe field of housing, planning, design, and urban and community action. This book is \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ea history of the development of an awareness, of institutions, and of policies on \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ethe shaping of the man-made environment. It is however more than that. Mr Carver \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003edescribes his own life and sensibilities, his family and his colleagues, with a \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003etrained and compassionate eye and a taut and careful prose. Rarely does one \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eencounter an autobiography of such perceptive and satisfying craftsmanship. Those \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ewho know him will not be surprised; those who do not will be delighted to discover a \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ework of such a warm and sympathetic humanity. Humphrey Carver has a message for us \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eall.","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47615450742935,"sku":"9780802062697","price":4730.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780802062697.webp?v=1775100909","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/compassionate-landscape-9780802062697","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}