Shaping the American Landscape

Shaping the American Landscape
Author: Charles A. Birnbaum
Publisher:
Total Pages: 518
Release: 2009
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

A generous selection of illustrations, together with a list of surviving landscape sites accessible to the public, brings both the subjects and their art to life.

Shaping an American Landscape

Shaping an American Landscape
Author: Keith N. Morgan
Publisher: Hood Museum of Art Darmouth College
Total Pages: 226
Release: 1995
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

A rich portrait of a major figure in American art & architecture & his role in shaping American cultural identity.

The Making of the American Landscape

The Making of the American Landscape
Author: Michael P. Conzen
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 568
Release: 2014-06-03
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1317793706

The only compact yet comprehensive survey of environmental and cultural forces that have shaped the visual character and geographical diversity of the settled American landscape. The book examines the large-scale historical influences that have molded the varied human adaptation of the continent’s physical topography to its needs over more than 500 years. It presents a synoptic view of myriad historical processes working together or in conflict, and illustrates them through their survival in or disappearance from the everyday landscapes of today.

The Routledge Companion to the American Landscape

The Routledge Companion to the American Landscape
Author: Chris W. Post
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 511
Release: 2023-03-31
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1000832953

The Routledge Companion to the American Landscape provides a comprehensive overview of the American landscape in a way fit for the twenty-first century, not only in its topical and regional scope but also in its methodological and disciplinary diversity. Critically surveying the contemporary scholarship on the American landscape, this companion brings together scholars from the social sciences and humanities who focus their work on understanding the polyphonic evolution of the United States’ landscape. It simultaneously assesses the development of the US landscape as well as the scholarly thought that has driven innovation and continued research about that landscape. Four broad sections focus on key areas of scholarship: environmental landscapes, social, cultural, and popular identities in the landscape, political landscapes, and urban/economic landscapes. A special essay, "American Landscapes Under Siege" and accompanying short case studies call attention to the legacies and realities of race in the American landscape, bridging the discussion of social and political landscapes. This companion offers an invaluable and up-to-date guide for scholars and graduate students to current thinking across the range of disciplines which converge in the study of place, including Geography, Cultural Studies, and History as well as the interdisciplinary fields of American Studies, Environmental Studies, and Planning.

Shaping American Democracy

Shaping American Democracy
Author: Scott M. Roulier
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2017-12-06
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3319688103

This book argues that the design of built spaces influences civic attitudes, including prospects for social equality and integration, in America. Key American architects and planners—including Frederick Law Olmsted, Frank Lloyd Wright, Robert Moses, and the New Urbanists—not only articulated unique visions of democracy in their extensive writings, but also instantiated those ideas in physical form. Using criteria such as the formation of social capital, support for human capabilities, and environmental sustainability, the book argues that the designs most closely associated with a communally-inflected version of democracy, such as Olmsted's public parks or various New Urbanist projects, create conditions more favorable to human flourishing and more consistent with a democratic society than those that are individualistic in their orientation, such as urban modernism or most suburban forms.

Taking Measures Across the American Landscape

Taking Measures Across the American Landscape
Author: James Corner
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1996-01-01
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 0300086962

Photographs and essays express "the way the American landscape has been forged by various cultures in the past and what the possibilities are for its future design."--Jacket.

Women in Landscape Architecture

Women in Landscape Architecture
Author: Louise A. Mozingo
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2011-12-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 078648733X

While many fields struggle to specify feminine contributions, the work of women has always played a fundamental role in American landscape architecture. Women claim responsibility for many landscape types now taken for granted, including community gardens, playgrounds, and streetscapes. This collection of essays by leaders in the discipline addresses the ways that gender has influenced the history, design practice and perception of landscapes. It highlights women's relation to landscape architecture, presents the professional efforts of women in the landscape realm, examines both the perception and experience of landscapes by women, and speculates on ways to re-imagine gender and the landscape.