Taking Measures Across the American Landscape

Name: Taking Measures Across the American Landscape
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ISBN: 9780300065664

ISBN-10: 0300065663

ISBN-13: 9780300065664

Edition: 1996

Authors: James Corner, Alex MacLean, Michael Van Valkenburgh, Denis Cosgrove

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This book views both the manmade and natural topography of the American landscape, and investigates the ways in which landscape representation not only reflects a given reality but also constitutes a way of seeing and acting in the world.

Book details

List price: $60.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 10/30/1996
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Size: 11.50" wide x 10.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 3.278
Language: English

Foreword	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Introduction	p. xv
Essays
The Measures of America	p. 3
Aerial Representation and the Making of Landscape	p. 15
The American Landscape at Work	p. 21
Taking Measure: Irony and Contradiction in an Age of Precision	p. 25
Measures
Measures of Land	p. 41
Measures of Control	p. 69
Measures of Rule	p. 97
Measures of Fit	p. 121
Measures of Faith	p. 149
Notes	p. 175
List of Contributors	p. 181
Index	p. 183
Credits	p. 185
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