Abstract
AbstractThis paper is derived from the Reflection Riding Memorial Lecture delivered by Kim Wilkie to the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce in June 1994.The Thames Landscape Strategy attempts to show a new approach to planning our cities, based on the principles of Alexander Pope. Landscape is a cultural, as well as a visual, concept that covers the perception of our surroundings filtered through stories and associations. Pope explained that ‘all must be adapted to the Genius and the Use of the Place and the Beauties not forced into it, but resulting from it’. The Thames between Hampton and Kew is a fine example of the interaction of natural factors, history, cultural associations and contemporary uses, which creates one of the great urban landscapes of the world. The Strategy demonstrates a way of conserving the rich diversity of the landscape we have inherited, and carrying the inspiration into planning and design for the next one hundred years.
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