Reading the American landscape
Subtitle: an index of books and images
By: editors, Lex ter Braak ... [et al.] ; illustration editor/image editor and selection, Frank van der Salm ; compilation of bibliography, Erik de Jong, Hanneke Schreiber ; design, Irma Boom
Publisher: NAi Publishers
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Rotterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 927
ISBN-13: 9789056627034
Subjects: Public spaces; Landscapes; Architecture; Pictorial works
Description: This book presents the personal views of 25 landscape architects, urban designers, visual artists, photographers and commentators on the American landscape. The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture (Fonds BKVB) invited this creative group to join a journey through the USA entitled 'Power of Place', in order to study the history, development and transformations of the landscape there. This study involved three scales: the city park as a social and multicultural space in the densely developed city, the landscape on the periphery of advancing urbanization, and the large-scale rural environs as an exercise in conservation, stewardship and design. An important guideline for this expedition was a selective bibliography that unlocks many aspects of the American landscape in relation to complementary themes such as memory and identity, suburbia and wilderness, park and garden, and planning and design.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.