Main entry:

Williams, Ron, 1942- author.

Title & Author:

Landscape architecture in Canada / Ron Williams.

Publication:

Montréal & Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2014]
©2014

Description:

viii, 664 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), maps (chiefly colour), portraits (some colour) ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 585-651) and indexes.
Part Landscape heritage of the first nations and colonists -- The Oldest land in the world : the natural landscapes of canada -- Turtle Island : landscapes of Canada's first nations -- Maritime approaches : the first Europeans -- Sacred Land in the New World : the colonial heritage of new France -- Dreams of Empire : The British Colonial tradition -- Promised lands in the west.
Part II The Nineteenth century : challenges of an urban and industrial landscape -- The Making of Canada's rural landscape -- The Greening of the urban landscape -- Public and private gardens of the nineteenth century -- Taming the industrial city : City Parks and Rural Cemeteries -- Taming the Industrial City : The great public parks -- Natural monuments : the creation of the national and provincial parks -- New ideals in urban design : Garden City and City Beautiful -- Landscapes of the "Belle Époque."
Part III Years of challenge, 1914-1945 : landscape innovations in times of war and depression -- Landscapes of memory : memorials of the First World War -- Private gardens of the Twenties and Thirties -- "The City Efficient" : changing currents of urban development -- Embers in the shadows : remarkable landscape projects of the 1930s.
Part IV Birth of the modern landscape, from 1945 to the present day -- Brave new landscapes : the postwar era -- Urban renaissance -- Birth of an environmental conscience -- Beyond modernism : new currents in landscape, 1975-2000 -- Landscapes for a multicultural society -- The Twenty-first Century : Canadian landscapes in a time of rapid change -- Epilogue : the conservation of historic and significant landscapes -- Appendix : Glossary of plants mentioned in the text.

Summary:

"The largest and most pervasive of human artifacts, landscapes are both cultural expressions and environments that shape our actions. Playgrounds, cemeteries, memorials, historic sites, public squares, gardens, industrial rehabilitation sites, wild national parks, and manicured urban parks provide the settings for work, recreation, commerce, memorialization, and mourning and shape the experience and meaning of these activities in Canada. In the first critical history of designed landscapes in our country, Ron Williams approaches landscape architecture as a social art that creates places for people to use and as an environmental art through which practitioners act as stewards of the natural world. Landscape Architecture in Canada provides a detailed panorama of the man-made landscapes that vary as widely as the country's geography."--Jacket.

ISBN:

9780773542068
077354206X

Subject:

Landscape architecture Canada History.
Architecture du paysage Canada Histoire.
Landscape architecture.
Canada.
Landscape Architecture (General)
Landschapsarchitectuur (algemeen)

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 286630
Call No.: SB470.55.C2 W5 2014
Status: Available