From Arcadia to Zeus: my first year on the Web

The Roman writer Cicero termed what we would call the cultural landscape a second nature (alteram naturam). This was a landscape of bridges, roads, harbours, fields - in short, all the elements which men and women introduce into the physical world to make it more habitable, to make it serve their purposes.

Hunt 1992

John Hunt argues 18th century English landscape architects designed the "natural" English countryside:

• Notable example is Lancelot "Capability" Brown
• How we think of city design, as well as the countryside was influenced by these designers

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