Environmentalism in landscape architecture / edited by Michel Conan.

Title & Author:

Environmentalism in landscape architecture / edited by Michel Conan.

Publication:

Description:

284 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contested claims and creative tensions / Michel Conan -- Jungles of Eden : the design of American zoos / Jeffrey Hyson -- Environmental therapy for soil and social erosion : landscape architecture and depression-era highway construction in Texas / Gregory T. Cushman -- Organic planning : ecology and design in the landscape of the Tennessee Valley Authority, 1933-45 / Brian Black -- Ian McHarg, landscape architecture and environmentalism : ideas and methods in context / Anne Whiston Spirn -- Do landscapes learn? : ecology's "new paradigm" and design in landscape architecture / Robert E. Cook -- Environmental rhetoric, environmental sophism : the words and work of landscape architecture / Daniel Joseph Nadenicek and Catherin M. Hastings -- Constructions of American forest : four landscapes, four readings/ Paul Kelsch -- The post-earth day conundrum : translating environmental values into landscape design / Elizabeth K. Meyer -- Environmentalism in Japanese gardens / Taiichi Ito and Mieko Kawarada.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0884022781
9780884022787
0764113321 (alk. paper)
9780764113321 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Landscape architecture United States Congresses.
Landscape architecture Environmental aspects United States Congresses.
Environmentalism United States Congresses.
Architecture du paysage États-Unis Congrès.
Architecture du paysage Aspect de l'environnement États-Unis Congrès.
Écologisme États-Unis Congrès.
21.74 landscape architecture and garden design.
Environmentalism.
Landscape architecture.
Landscape architecture Environmental aspects.
Landschapsarchitectuur.
Leefmilieu.
United States.

Form/genre:

Conference Papers (document genres)
Conference papers and proceedings.
Congresses (form)
Actes de congrès.

Added entries:

Conan, Michel.
Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture (22nd)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 215824
Call No.: SB470.53 .E5 2000
Status: Available

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