Conzen The Making of the American Landscape

2. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-317-79370-0
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 568 Seiten

The only compact yet comprehensive survey of environmental and cultural forces that have shaped the visual character and geographical diversity of the settled American landscape. The book examines the large-scale historical influences that have molded the varied human adaptation of the continent’s physical topography to its needs over more than 500 years. It presents a synoptic view of myriad historical processes working together or in conflict, and illustrates them through their survival in or disappearance from the everyday landscapes of today.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Conzen, Michael P.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Städtebau, Stadtplanung (Architektur)
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Garten- und Landschaftsarchitektur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The Making of the American Landscape (ed. by Michael P. Conzen) — 2nd Edition — TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chap. 1 Nature’s bequest

Stanley W. Trimble, University of California at Los Angeles

Chap. 2 Indian settlement landscapes

Karl W. Butzer, University of Texas at AustinChap. 3 Hispanic landscape traditions

David Hornbeck, California State University at Northridge

Chap. 4 The French imprint on North America

Cole Harris, University of British ColumbiaChap.

Chap. 5 Americanizing English landscape habits

Peirce F. Lewis, The Pennsylvania State UniversityChap. 6 The plantation regime

Charles S. Aiken, University of TennesseeChap. 7 Gridding a national landscape

Hildegard B. Johnson, Macalester College

Chap. 8 Clearing the forests

Michael Williams, University of Oxford

Chap. 9 Remaking the prairies

John C. Hudson, Northwestern University

Chap. 10 Watering the deserts

James L. Wescoat, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Chap. 11 Designing American utopias

Bret Wallach, University of OklahomaChap. 12 Inscribing ethnicity on the land

Susan W. Hardwick, University of Oregon

Chap. 13 Organizing religious landscapes

Wilbur Zelinsky, The Pennsylvania State UniversityChap. 14 Mechanizing the American earth

David R. Meyer, Brown University

Chap. 15 Building American cityscapes

Edward K. Muller, University of Pittsburgh

Chap. 16 Asserting central authority

Wilbur Zelinsky, The Pennsylvania State UniversityChap. 17 Creating landscapes of civil society

Joseph S. Wood, University of Southern Maine

Chap. 18 Imposing landscapes of private power and wealth

William K. Wyckoff, Montana State University

Chap. 19 Paving America for the automobile

John A. Jakle, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Chap. 20 Developing corporate consumption venues

Michael P. Conzen, The University of Chicago

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Conzen is Professor of Geography at the University of Chicago