experience in landscape has always been Nature, and draws upon historical precedent of French and English landscape traditions to illustrate his case.The next three readings focus upon human artifacts as the source of meaningful form in landscape. Geoffrey and Susan Jellicoe (1987) express a vision of the search for a "single great idea" oflandscape asthe mean ingful middle distance, mediating between theindividual and infinity Their references to the urban fabric ofa medieval town, the American regional grid, and the painting of Jack- son Pollock as sources for a humanistic landscape prefigure contemporary ideals of land- scape as meaningful infrastructure. Infrastructure is also prefigured in Nan Fairbrother's (197o) advocacy of the aesthetic and experiential possibilities of the functional "new industrial" landscape, seeking meaning from the way landscape hasitselfbecome artifact. Patrick Condon (1988) also focuses upon human artifice as a source of experience, draw. ing upon familiar architectural metaphors to compare different types of spatial experience in landscape and arguing for a shift from a modernist idea of space defined by the place-