Medieval landscape architecture

The landscape architecture of the High and Late Middle Ages, from a 1000 to 1500 AD, was more sophisticated than one might think. Cities had organic street patterns and defensive walls that formed the clearest of boundaries between cities and their landscape settings. Church spires were usually the tallest buildings – which created wonderful landscape compositions. Cities were not concrete jungles: they were the glittering centres of civilization. Castles also had significant locations in landscapes. Some had man-made lakes and most had managed hunting forests. Pleasure gardens took the form of small ‘herbers’ for ladies, lovers and minstrels – as you can see in the rest of this video.
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