Perspectives in landscape history
By: edited by Cecilia Rusnack, Thomas Yahner, Daniel Nadenicek
Contributors: Pennsylvania State University. Center for Studies in Landscape History
Publisher: Center for Studies in Landscape History, Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Penn State
Published: 1996
Place of publication: University Park, Penn.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 78
ISBN-13: 9781888901016
Subjects: Landscape; Congresses; Landscape architecture
Notes: Selection of papers from the symposium "OnSite/InSight : nature, humanity, and time," on the general subject of landscape history from an interdisciplinary perspective, held in June 1996 at Pennsylvania State University.
Table of contents: title: Mapping the place of landscape in the landscape of ideas / Wilbur Zelinsky; title: Landscape as artifact, landscape as narrative / Kent C. Ryder; title: The Appalachian Trail corridor in the Cumberland Valley / Thomas G. Yahner; title: The landscape of a Pennsylvania nature writer / Marcia Bonta; title: The entire city is a great natural park : Duluth's Skyline Parkway System / Patrick D. Nunnally; title: Fading green to gray : George Kessler's impact at the Kansas-Missouri state line / Stephanie A. Rolley; title: An ecological position; title: in search of design principles / Lois A. Brink; title: The historical, ethical and aesthetic foundations of landscape design in the prairie region / Tim Keane.