Taking Measures Across the American Landscape
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James Corner / Alex S. MacLean …
简介
This book combines breathtaking aerial photographs and exquisite map-drawings of the American landscape with thoughtful essays that explore how various cultures have forged the landscapes in different regions of the country and what the possibilities are for future landscape design. The authors demonstrate that landscape representation is more than descriptive-it can also instruct and construct how people perceive, shape, and transform the land.
目录
Foreword, by Michael Van Valkenburgh
Preface
Introduction
Part One: Essays
1. The Measures of America, by Denis Cosgrove
2. Aerial Representation and the Making of Landscape
3. The American Landscape at Work
4. Taking Measure: Irony and Contradiction in an Age of Precision
Part Two: Measures
5. Measures of Land
6. Measures of Control
7. Measures of Rule
8. Measures of Fit
9. Measures of Faith
Notes
List of Contributors
Index
Credits