Taking Measures Across the American Landscape

Name: Taking Measures Across the American Landscape
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ISBN: 9780300086966

ISBN-10: 0300086962

ISBN-13: 9780300086966

Edition: 2000

Authors: James Corner, Alex S. MacLean, Denis Cosgrove, 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: $50.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 9/10/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 206
Size: 0.94" wide x 1.08" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 2.904
Language: English



Foreword



Preface


Introduction



Essays



The Measures of America




Aerial Representation and the Making of Landscape



The American Landscape at Work



Taking Measure: Irony and Contradiction in an Age of Precision



Measures



Measures of Land



Measures of Control



Measures of Rule



Measures of Fit



Measures of Faith


Notes


List of Contributors


Index


Credits