Bøger i Creating the North American Landscape serien
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- Developers' Subdivisions in the 1920s
504,95 kr. Decentralized and loosely coordinated, this network promoted home ownership through flexible strategies of design, planning, financing, and construction which the author describes as a new and "entrepreneurialvernacular.
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- 504,95 kr.
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500,95 kr. However, several decades of experience with dispersed retailers, suburban slaughterhouses, and food transported by railroad proved disastrous to the public welfare, prompting cities and federal agencies to reclaim this urban civic space.
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- 500,95 kr.
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- Looking at Buildings and Landscapes
398,95 kr. Everyday Architecture of the Mid-Atlantic gives proof to the insights architecture offers into who we are culturally as a community, a region, and a nation.
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- 398,95 kr.
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- Volume 2: New York & New England
693,95 kr. These masterpieces, accompanied by detailed sections on stations, track pans, tunnels, and viaducts, capture a time when rail was king in New England, before cars, trucks, and planes became dominant.
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- 693,95 kr.
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- A Regional Geography of the United States and Canada
419,95 - 673,95 kr. as well as a popular reference work for scholars, students, and lay readers.
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- 419,95 kr.
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- Settlement and Landscape in the Shenandoah Valley
383,95 - 643,95 kr. An important addition to scholarship of the geography and history of colonial and early America, The Planting of New Virginia, rethinks American history and the evolution of the American landscape in the colonial era.
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- 383,95 kr.
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575,95 kr. Richly illustrated with more than 130 maps and photographs (many original and many from FSA photographers), The Cotton Plantation South is a vivid and colorful account of landscape, geography, race, politics, and civil rights as they relate to one of America's most enduring and familiar institutions.
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- 575,95 kr.
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- Homes for Working People since the 1780s
488,95 kr. Featuring more than one hundred historic images, Baltimore's Alley Houses documents the changing architectural styles of low-income housing over two centuries and reveals the complex lives of its residents.
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- 488,95 kr.
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- Planning the Twentieth-Century Metropolis
383,95 kr. This study explores how the professionalization of planning affected practice and how the idea of decentralization became a major force in shaping the environment and on the process of community building. The book uses Los Angeles as a case study, revealing its national implications.
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- 383,95 kr.
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374,95 kr. Building San Francisco's Parks, 1850-1930 maps the political, cultural, and social dimensions of landscape design in urban America and offers new insights into the transformation of San Francisco's physical environment and quality of life through its world-famous park system.
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- 374,95 kr.
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- Maker of Natural Parks and Gardens
434,95 kr. Grese draws on Jensen's writings and plans, interviews with people who knew him, and analyses of his projects to present a clear picture of Jensen's efforts to enhance and preserve "nativelandscapes.
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- 434,95 kr.
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- Park Forest, Illinois
373,95 kr. He shows how this new town changed community planning throughout the United States, including its effects on community development up to the present.
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- 373,95 kr.
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- 385,95 kr.
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383,95 kr. Wilson sees the movement as its founders did: as an exercise in participatory politics aimed at changing the way citizens thought about cities.
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- 383,95 kr.
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- The Landscape of America's First Oil Boom
393,95 kr. Black gives historical detail and analysis to account for this transformation.
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- 393,95 kr.
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- Skyscrapers, Skid Rows, and Suburbs
388,95 kr. In offering an account of the relationship between urban architecture - especially vernacular architecture - and the spatial arrangement and development of cities in North America, this book shows how changes in the built environment parallel changes in urban economies and human culture.
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- 388,95 kr.
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- Recreational and Retirement Communities in the United States since 1950
358,95 kr. Yet Stroud acknowledges that future development is inevitable, as recreational and retirement communities continue to lure urban America with the promise of paradise.
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- 358,95 kr.
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- 469,95 kr.
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- A History of the Washington Metro
298,95 kr. The story of the Great Society Subway sheds light on the development of metropolitan Washington, postwar urban policy, and the promises and limits of rail transit in American cities.
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- 298,95 kr.
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- Architecture and Ritual in American Law, 1658-1860
483,95 kr. Concise and clearly written, From Tavern to Courthouse reveals the processes by which architects and lawyers crafted new judicial spaces to provide a specialized, exclusive venue in which lawyers could articulate their professional status.
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- 483,95 kr.
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- Volume 5: Iowa and Minnesota
778,95 kr. In Minnesota, the primary rail routes to the Pacific northwest-the Great Northern and the Northern Pacific-ran westward from Minneapolis-Saint Paul.
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- 778,95 kr.
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- Volume 3: Indiana, Lower Michigan, and Ohio
708,95 kr. Carpenter depicts the major rail centers of Indianapolis, Gary, Detroit, Toledo, Cleveland, and Chicago, as well as every town and rail junction from Mackinaw City, Michigan, to Tell City, Indiana.
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- 708,95 kr.
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- Public Open Spaces in Washington, D.C.
693,95 kr. From historic Lincoln Square, Dupont Circle, and Judiciary Square to the newly developed Freedom Plaza, Pershing Park, and Market Square, Bednar's thoughtful study provides a fresh perspective on the role of public space in the expression of democratic ideals.
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- 693,95 kr.
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- Vandergrift, Pennsylvania, 1855-1916
543,95 kr. It is a window into an important period of industrial development and its consequences on communities and environments in the world-famous steel country of southwestern Pennsylvania.
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- 543,95 kr.
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- Volume 1: The Mid-Atlantic States
688,95 kr. This volume, with its 202 full-scale and detail maps, is sure to remain the standard reference work for years to come, as will the others to follow in the series.
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- 688,95 kr.
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- Its Origin, Evolution, and Distribution in North America
368,95 kr. Including an entire chapter of new material, 85 new illustrations, and updates to previous chapters, this edition of Ensminger's classic work will appeal to students and scholars in cultural and historical geography, folklore and vernacular architectural history, and American studies, as well as to general readers.
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- 368,95 kr.
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478,95 kr. With a wealth of detail and illustrations, The Unknown World of the Mobile Home provides readers with an in-depth look into this variation on the American dream.
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- 478,95 kr.
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318,95 kr. We invent the past, Wood concludes, in our own image-as nineteenth-century villagers did quite literally and as suburban developers do today.
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- 318,95 kr.
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- Volume 4: Illinois, Wisconsin, and Upper Michigan
718,95 kr. Anyone interested in how people and goods moved around the country will find much to learn and appreciate in Richard Carpenter's one-of-a-kind railroad atlases.
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- 718,95 kr.
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- Conservationist, Planner, and Creator of the Appalachian Trail
419,95 kr. This book will appeal to students, scholars, and professionals in preservation, conservation, recreation, planning, and American studies, as well as general readers interested in these subjects.
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- 419,95 kr.