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| Foreword | |
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| Introduction: The Shaping of Space; the Meaning of Place | |
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| Magic, Myth, and Nature: Landscapes of Prehistoric, Early Ancient, and Contemporary Peoples | |
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| Caves and Circles: Sustaining Life and Discerning Cosmic Order | |
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| Architectural Mountains and the Earth's First Cities: Landscape as Urban Power in Early Ancient Civilizations | |
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| Ritual and Landscape in Prehistoric Greece: Earth Goddess and the Mighty Lords | |
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| Cosmology in the Landscapes of the Americas: Spirits of Earth and Sky | |
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| Nature, Art, and Reason: Landscape Design in the Classical World | |
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| Gods and Humans: The New Contract with Nature | |
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| Polis and Acropolis: City and Temple in the Greek Landscape | |
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| Empire: Hellenism and Roman Urbanism | |
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| Garden and Villa: The Art of Landscape in Ancient Rome | |
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| Visions of Paradise: Landscape Design as Symbol and Metaphor | |
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| Paradise as a Literary Topos: Gardens of God and Gardens of Love | |
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| Paradise on Earth: The Islamic Garden | |
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| Paradise Contained: Walled Cities and Walled Gardens of the European Middle Ages | |
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| Classicism Reborn: Landscape Ideals of the Renaissance in Italy and France | |
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| Petrarch, Alberti, and Colonna: Humanism and the Landscape | |
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| Bramante and the Rediscovery of Axial Planning: Gardens of Sixteenth-Century Italy | |
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| Axial Planning on an Urban Scale: The Development of Renaissance Rome | |
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| Currents of Fashion: The Transformation of the Italian Garden in France | |
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| The Evolution of French Urbanization and Garden Style: Paris in the Time of Henry IV | |
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| Power and Glory: The Genius of Le Notre and the Grandeur of the Baroque | |
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| The Making of Vaux-le-Vicomte and Versailles: Andre Le Notre | |
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| The Garden as Theater: Italian Baroque and Rococo Gardens | |
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| Expanding Horizons: Court and City in the European Grand Manner | |
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| French and Italian Exports: The Application of Classical and Baroque Design Principles to Gardens in the Netherlands, England, Germany, and Beyond | |
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| The Heroic City: Expressions of Classical and Baroque Urbanism | |
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| Nature's Paradise: America in the Colonial and Federal Periods | |
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| Sense and Sensibility: Landscapes of the Age of Reason, Romanticism, and Revolution | |
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| The Genius of the Place: Forging a New Landscape Style Through Literature, Art, and Theory | |
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| Leaping the Fence: The Transformation of the English Landscape into a Pastoral Idyll with Political Meaning | |
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| Remaking England: Capability Brown, Professional Improver | |
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| Nature's Canvas: English Philosophers and Practitioners of the Picturesque | |
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| Landscapes of Moral Virtue and Exotic Fantasy: The French Picturesque | |
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| Designing Nature's Garden: The Landscapes of Thomas Jefferson | |
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| The Landscape of Mind and Soul: Goethe and Wordsworth | |
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| Nature as Muse: The Gardens of China and Japan | |
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| Mountains, Lakes, and Islands: Intimations of Immortality in the Chinese Garden | |
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| Tea, Moss, and Stones: Temple and Palace Gardens of Japan | |
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| Expanding Cities and New Social Institutions: The Democratization of Landscape Design | |
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| Botanical Science, the Gardenesque Style, and People's Parks: Landscape Design in Victorian England | |
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| Redefining Rural America: The Influence of Andrew Jackson Downing | |
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| Honoring History and Repose for the Dead: Commemorative Landscapes and Rural Cemeteries | |
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| The New Metropolis: Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux as Park Builders and City Planners | |
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| Industrial Age Civilization: Birth of the Modern City, Beaux-Arts America, and National Parks | |
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| Haussmann's Paris: Birth of the Modern City | |
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| The City Beautiful: Monumental Urbanism in Beaux-Arts America | |
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| America the Beautiful: The National Park System | |
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| Landscape as Aesthetic Experience: The Arts and Crafts Movement and the Revival of the Formal Garden | |
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| Modernity Challenged: Ruskin's Influence, the Past Revalued, and Italy's Long Shadow | |
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| The Edwardian and Post-Edwardian English Garden: Aristocracy's Golden Afternoon and Twilight | |
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| Design Synthesis: The End of the American Country Place Era | |
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| Social Utopias: Modernism and Regional Planning | |
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| Urban Expansion: Town Planning for the Machine Age in Britain and Continental Europe | |
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| Greenbelt Towns or Suburbs?: Creating the American Metropolis | |
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| A New Landscape Aesthetic: The Modernist Garden | |
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| Transitional Experimentation: Design Idioms of the Early Twentieth Century | |
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| Abstract Art and the Functional Landscape: Gardens for Modern Living | |
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| Home, Commerce, and Entertainment: Landscapes of Consumerism | |
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| A Home for the Family: The Landscape of Suburbia | |
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| Commerce and Entertainment: Shopping Malls and Theme Parks | |
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| Holding on and Letting Grow: Landscape as Preservation, Conservation, Art, Sport, and Theory | |
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| Preserving the Past: Place as Heritage, Identity, Tourist Landscape, and New Urbanist Community | |
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| Conserving Nature: Landscape Design as Environmental Science and Art | |
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| Earthworks, Golf Courses, Philosophical Models, and Poetic Metaphors: Landscape as Art Form, Sport, Deconstructivism, and Phenomenology | |
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| The Weaving of Place and the Geography of Flows: Landscape as Bodily Experience and Vernacular Expression | |
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| Body and Space: The Weaving of Place | |
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| Cultural Geography: The Loom of Landscape | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |
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| Photograph Credits | |