Screen LibraryPublic nature : scenery, history, and park design /
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| Group Author: | ; ; |
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| Published: |
University of Virginia Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Charlottesville : |
| Publication Dates: | 2013. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | x, 260 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780813933436 (cloth : alkaline paper) : 0813933439 (cloth : alkaline paper) |
| Index Number: | SB482 |
| CLC: |
TU986.5-171.2 S759.997.12 |
| Call Number: | S759.997.12/P976 |
| Contents: |
Nature and design in Europe and Amewrica. The influence of anxiety: keeping Europe in the picture in North American landscaping / Romanticism and the American landscape / Movement and landscape. "Everyone has carriage road on the brain" : designing for vehicles in pre-automotive parks / The hegemony of the car culture in U.S. National Parks / Political natures. Mass-producing nature : municipal parks in Second Empire Paris / Playing politics at Bear Mountain : Franklin Roosevelt, the Civilian Conservation Corps, and state park design during the New Deal Era / From pariah to paragon : the redesign of Platt National Park, 1933-1940 / Urban parks in Sweden at the turn of the twentieth century : the nature park and the search for national identity / History and identity. Divided spaces, contested pasts : the Gallipoli Peninsula Historical National Park / Enacting discovery : Itasca State Park and the Mississippi's mythical source / Parks apart : African American recreational landscapes in Virginia / Conceptualizing, representing, and designing nature : cultural constructions of the Blue Mountains, Australia / "If paradise is in the land of Israel, its entrance is at the Gates of Beit Shean" : Israeli National Parks and the fluidity of national identity / Monuments in the landscape. Protecting artifice amid nature : Camp Santanoni and the Adirondack Forest Preserve / A grand experiment : the Jackson Lake Lodge / The Visitor Center as monument : recontextualizing Richard Neutra's 1962 Cyclorama Center within the commemorative landscape of the Gettysburg Battlefield / |