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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 | |