Canyon gardens
Subtitle: the Ancient Pueblo landscapes of the American Southwest
By: edited by V.B. Price and Baker H. Morrow
Contributors: Price, V. B.; Morrow, Baker H., 1946-
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Albuquerque
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9780826338594
Subjects: Pueblo Indians -- Ethnobotany; Landscape architecture -- Southwest, New; Sustainable architecture -- Southwest, New; Landscape archaeology -- Southwest, New; Southwest, New -- Environmental conditions
Description: Canyon Gardens is the long-awaited sequel to Anasazi Architecture and American Design (UNM Press). It takes a new look at ancient and modern Puebloan gardening and landscape design approaches. Part One examines early Puebloan landscapes in detail, including compact gardens and terraces, site planning, the integration of farming and landscape design into settlement complexes, and the unit-courtyard complexes of the Mesa Verde country. It also covers the first meeting of the Ancient Puebloan tradition with Spanish traditions in seventeenth-century New Mexico and the Puebloan uses of plants. New field research is included--recent findings about the Zuni area, the upper Rio Grande country, and the Tompiro and Tiwa canyons and valleys in the Manzano Range. Part Two looks at the Ancient Puebloan culture's influence today. Chapters here examine the uses of the historic landscape in today's agriculture and horticulture and the impact of governmental regulations on traditional habits of gardening and land use and perception. Modern architects, site planners, and landscape architects will find these new-found qualities of the Southwestern landscape fascinating and inspirational.--Amazon.com.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Europe, the new world, and buildings without history / by Stephen H. Lekson; title: The berry gardens of Quarai and the pocket terraces of Abó / by Baker H. Morrow; title: Reading the ancestral Puebloan landscape : a paleoethnobotanist's text of seeds and wood / by Carol B. Brandt; title: A durable legacy : construction and spatial analysis at Sand Canyon Pueblo in the Mesa Verde country / by Bruce A. Bradley; title: Tewa fields, Tewa traditions / by Kurt F. Anschuetz; title: The estancia : the New Mexican hacienda / by James E. Ivey; title: Zuni maize / by Mary Beath; title: The narrative construction of landscape : Hopi, 1879-94 / by Louis A. Hieb; title: Conflicting landscape values : the Santa Clara Pueblo and day school / by Rina Swentzell; title: Mary Jane Colter and the ancestral Puebloan tradition / by Kenneth A. Romig; title: AMREP and the Pueblos : River's Edge and La Luz / by Anthony Anella; title: Landscape and survival : thoughts on new urbanism and ancestral Puebloan strategies for designing pragmatic desert built environments / by V.B. Price; title: The Chaco ancestral Puebloans : lessons learned / by David E. Stuart