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Bücher der Reihe Creating the North American Landscape

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  • - Developers' Subdivisions in the 1920s
    von Carolyn S. Loeb
    61,00 €

    Decentralized and loosely coordinated, this network promoted home ownership through flexible strategies of design, planning, financing, and construction which the author describes as a new and "entrepreneurialvernacular.

  • von Helen Tangires
    60,00 €

    However, several decades of experience with dispersed retailers, suburban slaughterhouses, and food transported by railroad proved disastrous to the public welfare, prompting cities and federal agencies to reclaim this urban civic space.

  • - Park Forest, Illinois
    von Gregory C. (Professional Landscape Architect and Planner Randall
    46,00 €

    He shows how this new town changed community planning throughout the United States, including its effects on community development up to the present.

  • - Skyscrapers, Skid Rows, and Suburbs
    von Larry R. (San Diego State University) Ford
    48,00 €

    In offering an account of the relationship between urban architecture - especially vernacular architecture - and the spatial arrangement and development of cities in North America, this book shows how changes in the built environment parallel changes in urban economies and human culture.

  • - Settlement and Landscape in the Shenandoah Valley
    von Warren R. Hofstra
    46,00 - 71,00 €

    An important addition to scholarship of the geography and history of colonial and early America, The Planting of New Virginia, rethinks American history and the evolution of the American landscape in the colonial era.

  • - Maker of Natural Parks and Gardens
    von Robert E. (University of Michigan) Grese
    50,00 €

    Grese draws on Jensen's writings and plans, interviews with people who knew him, and analyses of his projects to present a clear picture of Jensen's efforts to enhance and preserve "nativelandscapes.

  • von Terence (Assistant Professor Young
    46,00 €

    Building San Francisco's Parks, 1850-1930 maps the political, cultural, and social dimensions of landscape design in urban America and offers new insights into the transformation of San Francisco's physical environment and quality of life through its world-famous park system.

  • - Planning the Twentieth-Century Metropolis
    von Greg (UNLV) Hise
    46,00 €

    This study explores how the professionalization of planning affected practice and how the idea of decentralization became a major force in shaping the environment and on the process of community building. The book uses Los Angeles as a case study, revealing its national implications.

  • - Conservationist, Planner, and Creator of the Appalachian Trail
    von Larry (University of Georgia) Anderson
    51,00 €

    This book will appeal to students, scholars, and professionals in preservation, conservation, recreation, planning, and American studies, as well as general readers interested in these subjects.

  • - The Landscape of America's First Oil Boom
    von Brian (Assistant Professor Black
    45,00 €

    Black gives historical detail and analysis to account for this transformation.

  • von Charles S. (Professor of Geography Aiken
    64,00 €

    Richly illustrated with more than 130 maps and photographs (many original and many from FSA photographers), The Cotton Plantation South is a vivid and colorful account of landscape, geography, race, politics, and civil rights as they relate to one of America's most enduring and familiar institutions.

  • von William H. Wilson
    45,00 €

    Wilson sees the movement as its founders did: as an exercise in participatory politics aimed at changing the way citizens thought about cities.

  • - Ethnic Landscapes in North America
     
    52,00 €

  • - Recreational and Retirement Communities in the United States since 1950
    von Hubert B. Stroud
    41,00 €

    Yet Stroud acknowledges that future development is inevitable, as recreational and retirement communities continue to lure urban America with the promise of paradise.

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