Main entry:

Corner, James, 1961-

Title & Author:

Taking measures across the American landscape / James Corner, essays, drawings, and commentary ; Alex S. MacLean, photographs ; foreword by Michael Van Valkenburgh.

Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1996.

Description:

xix, 185 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 x 28 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-179) and index.
Introduction -- Part 1. Essays: The Measures of America / by Denis Cosgrove -- Aerial Representation and the Making of Landscape -- The American Landscape at Work -- Taking Measure: Irony and Contradiction in an Age of Precision -- Part 2. Measures: Measures of Land -- Measures of Control -- Measures of Rule -- Measures of Fit -- Measures of Faith.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

Photographs and essays express "the way the American landscape has been forged by various cultures in the past and what the possibilities are for its future design."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0300065663 (alk. paper)
9780300065664 (alk. paper)
0300086962
9780300086966

Subject:

Landscape photography United States.
Photographie de paysages États-Unis.
Landscape photography
Atlas
Landschaft
Luftbild
Kulturlandschaft
Landschaftsfotografie
Fotografie.
Landschappen.
United States Pictorial works.
United States
USA
Landscapes

Form/genre:

illustrated books.
Illustrated works
Pictorial works
Ouvrages illustrés.

Added entries:

MacLean, Alex S.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 117476
Call No.: ID TR660.5.C67; ID:96-B3265
Status: Available