Main entry:

Morrish, William R., 1948-

Title & Author:

Civilizing terrains : mountains, mounds and mesas / William Rees Morrish.

Edition:

Rev. 2nd ed.

Publication:

San Francisco, CA : William Stout Publishers, 1996.

Description:

1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Series:

Architectural documents ; 1

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Drawings: -- 1. Earth monuments -- 2. Gathering and governing, inaugurating the land -- 3. Sacred mountains -- 4. Terrestrial rooms -- 5. Geologic agents -- 6. The loss of urbanity, the leveling of the sacred mountain -- 7. Continental drift -- 8. Geomorphic character -- 9. World navels -- 10. A city upon the hill -- 11. Mounds -- 12. Reflection -- 13. Geomorphic reservoir -- 14. The horizon -- 15. Capu Mundi -- 16. Civic topography -- 17. Mountain, water and city -- 18. The brick mountain -- 19. The valley of kings -- 20. The Bodhi tree and the cosmic egg -- 21. Cosmic egg and world strata -- 22. The horns of consecration, Minoan palaces, Crete -- 23. Reconciling nature -- 24. The mountain dragon -- 25. Mt. Meru -- 26. Celestial terrains -- 27. One with the world -- 28. The democratic terrain -- 29. Monument valley -- 30. Prairie tower -- 31. American Indian mounds of the Mississippi River Valley and eastern seaboard -- 32. Stones and megaliths -- 33. The urban tumulus -- 34. Civic cones -- 35. The shining brow -- 36. Cosmic earth monuments -- 37. Strata -- 38. Post-industrial mountains -- 39. Inhabited mountains -- 40. Civic topography -- 41. Design language of the urban terrain -- 42. Geomorphic conversation: Mountain fold -- 43. Geomorphic conversation: Decomposition of mountain to plain -- 44. Geomorphic conversation: Terrain ensembles -- 45. Geomorphic conversation: Folded profile -- 46. Geomorphic conversation: Rising from the plain -- 47. Geomorphic conversation: Geomorphic theater -- 48. Geomorphic conversation: Residential terrain -- 49. Geomorphic conversation: The American democratic range.
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ISBN:

0965114414 (paperback)
9780965114417 (paperback)

Subject:

Landscape architecture.
Land use, Urban.
Architecture du paysage.
Utilisation urbaine du sol.
urban land use.
American architects.
Landscape architecture United States.
Urban land use United States.

Added entries:

Architectural documents (San Francisco, Calif.) ; 1.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 200923
Call No.: NA44.M877.A35 1996
Status: Available