Entrée principale:

Di Palma, Vittoria, author.

Titre et auteur:

Wasteland : a history / Vittoria Di Palma.

Publication:

©2014
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2014]

Description:

xi, 265 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm

Notes:
"In Wasteland, Vittoria Di Palma takes on the 'anti-picturesque, ' offering an account of landscapes that have traditionally drawn fear and contempt."--Jacket.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Wasteland -- Improvement -- Swamp -- Mountain -- Forest -- Wilderness, wasteland, garden.
Text in English.
Dust jacket.
Includes reproductions of CCA collection material.
Library copy: selected for the Multidisciplinary Research Project on "Architecture and/for the Environment", 2017-2019, developed by the CCA with the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Résumé:

"In Wasteland, Vittoria Di Palma takes on the 'anti-picturesque, ' offering an account of landscapes that have traditionally drawn fear and contempt."--Jacket.

Ressources:
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
View record details on Penryn Campus Library Catalogue

ISBN:

9780300197792 (alk. paper)
0300197799 (alk. paper)

Sujet:

Landscapes.
Landscape design.
Paysages.
Aménagement paysager.
landscapes (environments)
Ödland
Urbarmachung
Gartenbau
Landschaftsgestaltung
Gartenkunst
Naturverständnis
Landschaftsbild
Das Naturschöne
Kunst
Ästhetik
Landscapes Europe History.
Landscapes Social aspects.
Centre canadien d'architecture Collection

Classification/genre:

History

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 287057
Cote: BIB 227814
Statut: Disponible