Landscape in sight : looking at America /

"During a long and distinguished career, John Brinckerhoff Jackson (1909-1996) brought about a new understanding and appreciation of the American landscape. Jackson founded Landscape Magazine in 1951, taught at Harvard University and the University of California at Berkeley, and wrote nearly tw...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jackson, John Brinckerhoff, 1909-1996 (Autor)
Otros Autores: Horowitz, Helen Lefkowitz (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, [1997]
Temas:
Landscape assessment > United States.
Human geography > United States.
Architecture > United States.
Paysages > Évaluation > États-Unis.
Architecture > États-Unis.
NATURE > Essays.
Architecture.
Human geography.
Landscape assessment.
Travel.
Kulturlandschaft
Aufsatzsammlung
Anthropogeografie
Architektur
Cultuurlandschappen.
Anthropology.
Social Sciences.
Anthropogeography & Human Ecology.
Paysage > Évaluation > États-Unis.
Géographie humaine > États-Unis.
United States > Description and travel.
États-Unis > Descriptions et voyages.
United States.
USA
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • J.B. Jackson and the discovery of the American landscape / Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz
  • The stranger's path
  • The almost perfect town
  • Chihuahua as we might have been
  • Looking at New Mexico
  • The accessible landscape
  • The westward-moving house
  • Ghosts at the door
  • The domestication of the garage
  • The Virginia heritage : fencing, farming, and cattle raising
  • The nineteenth-century rural landscape : the courthouse, the small college, the mineral springs, and the country store
  • Excerpt from American space : the centennial years
  • High plains
  • From monument to place
  • Jefferson, Thoreau, and after
  • Other-directed houses
  • The abstract world of the hot-rodder
  • The movable dwelling and how it came to America
  • An engineered environment
  • The vernacular city
  • Roads belong in the landscape (abridged)
  • Truck city
  • Review of Built in U.S.A. (H.G. West)
  • Living outdoors with Mrs. Panther (Ajax)
  • Hail and farewell
  • Southeast to Turkey
  • From "Whither architecture? Some outside views"
  • The word itself
  • By way of conclusion : how to study the landscape
  • The tale of a house (Ajax)
  • Notes and comments
  • To pity the plumage and forget the dying bird
  • "Sterile" restorations cannot replace a sense of the stream of time.

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