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Architecture and nature : creating the American landscape /

The word "nature" comes from natura, Latin for birth - as do the words nation, native and innate. But nature and nation share more than a common root, they share a common history where one term has been used to define the other. In the United States, the relationship between nation and nat...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Macy, Christine
Otros Autores: Bonnemaison, Sarah
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Book Cover; Title; Contents; Illustration credits; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Exhibiting wilderness at the Columbian Exposition, 1893; Accommodating the nature tourist in the national parks, 1903; Putting nature to work with the Tennessee Valley Authority, 1933; Nature preserved in the nuclear age: the Case Study Houses of Los Angeles, 1945; Closing the circle: the geodesic domes and a new ecological consciousness, 1967; Selected bibliography; Index.