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...public edifices, a most dignified town, with as great beauty as could be expected of a place which has always had so much to do besides looking after its figure and complexion. The very charming series or system of parks, public gardens, and playgrounds, unusual in their number and variety, had a sympathetic allure in the gray, cool light, even to the spectator passing in...

...public access to the Falls over the land surrounding it had been denied. Important decisions had to be taken regarding the future of the site. The A465 slices through the site and the suburbs of Neath have encroached on the river bed on both sides. [Figure 1] Photo: RGB Aerial Photography. © GeoPerspectives COWI A/S © Photo: RGB Aerial Photography.© GeoPerspectives...

...public embraced the magic of the panorama - a clamour which owed a lot to the popularity of hot air ballooning...Until the late eighteenth century, the predominant mode of landscape representation was the bird’s-eye view. This type of image offered the onlooker a high viewpoint outside the subject depicted within the frame of representation, whether a city, a coastline,...