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Landscapes in History: Design and Planning in the Eastern and Western Traditions , 2nd Edition

ISBN: 978-0-471-29328-6
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864 pages
January 1999
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EUROPEAN LANDSCAPES.

Prehistory: Migration and Adaptation.

The Near Eastern Landscapes: Neolithic Settlements.

Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley.

Egypt and the Nile Valley.

The Mediterranean Landscape: Roman Hegemony.

Continental Europe: Agriculture, Feudalism, and Community.

The Late Middle Ages: Urban and Rural Landscape Development.

Humanism and Ideal Landscapes.

Enlightenment and Romanticism.

The Twentieth Century: Modernism and Planning.

Asian Landscapes: India & Subcontinent of Asia.

Landscapes of the Rising Sun: Design and Planting in Japan.

THE NORTH AMERICAN LANDSCAPE.

Pre-Columbian and European Colonial Landscapes.

The Early National Period.

A New Land to Process: Development of Transportation and Land Tenure Systems.

The Romantic Period.

Parks Produce a New Profession.

Urban Planning in the Nineteenth Century.

Impact of Railroads on the American Landscape.

Design for Ostentation: The Late Victorian Eclectic Landscape.

Noble Realities and Ignoble Pretenses: The City Beautiful.

The City Scientific.

The Revival of Classicism: Landscape Architecture in an Era of Conspicuous Consumption.

To Preserve and Conserve: Protection of Natural and Cultural Resources.

The 1930s: Era of Public Works.

The Automobile Age.

The Modern City.

Modern Garden Design and Site Planning.

References.

Source Acknowledgments.

Index.
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