Taking Measures Across the American Landscape Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : Yale University Press
• File Size : 34,5 Mb
• Release Date : 01 January 1996

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.

• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
• File Size : 50,8 Mb
• Release Date : 02 June 1996

Aerial photographs provide graphic evidence how American land has been divided, developed, and utilized

• Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
• File Size : 45,9 Mb
• Release Date : 01 August 1999

The past decade has been witness to a remarkable resurgence of interest in landscape. While this recovery invokes a return of past traditions and ideas, it also implies renewal, invention,

• Publisher : Yale University Press
• File Size : 51,9 Mb
• Release Date : 01 January 2001

"Each time the waters of the mighty Mississippi River overflow their banks, questions arise anew about the battle between "man" and "river". How can we prevent floods and the damage

• Publisher : Reaktion Books
• File Size : 51,9 Mb
• Release Date : 01 April 1999

Mappings explores what mapping has meant in the past and how its meanings have altered. How have maps and mapping served to order and represent physical, social and imaginative worlds?

• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
• File Size : 52,5 Mb
• Release Date : 02 June 2024

"Traces six contradictory American ideologies of nature from their emergence in the late eighteenth century to the present to explore how inconsistent conceptions of nature lead to conflict"--

• Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
• File Size : 46,9 Mb
• Release Date : 20 May 2014

Over the past two decades, James Corner has reinvented the field of landscape architecture. His highly influential writings of the 1990s—included in our bestselling Recovering Landscape—together with a

• Publisher : Island Press
• File Size : 40,9 Mb
• Release Date : 21 June 2022

It's time for America to move beyond zoning, argues city planner M. Nolan Gray in Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It. With lively

• Publisher : JHU Press
• File Size : 23,9 Mb
• Release Date : 02 June 1998

This collection of haunting and hopeful images shows the transformation of a former military base into a unique nature preserve. 53 photos, 50 in color. 2 color maps.

• Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
• File Size : 37,7 Mb
• Release Date : 03 September 2021

This is a graduate text introducing the fundamentals of measure theory and integration theory, which is the foundation of modern real analysis. The text focuses first on the concrete setting