Forest & garden : traces of wildness in a modernizing land, 1897-1949 / Melanie L. Simo.

Main entry:

Simo, Melanie Louise, 1949-

Title & Author:

Forest & garden : traces of wildness in a modernizing land, 1897-1949 / Melanie L. Simo.

Publication:

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2003.

Description:

xix, 302 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Desert: land of little rain, great beauty -- Prairie and plains: myth, symbol, cultural independence -- Forested mountains: Sierra Nevada, Rockies, Appalachian Trail -- San Francisco Bay Area: "Nature controlled by art" -- Around New York and Boston: traces of wildness, lost and found -- Park makers and forest managers: crossing professional lines in the early years -- Layers of human habitation and wildness -- Ecology along the roadside, by the water, and in the garden -- Spirit of the landscape, humanized and wild -- A land ethic for a plundered planet.

Summary:

"In Forest and Garden, Melanie L. Simo ranges through the underexamined period of landscape history between Olmsted and mid-twentieth-century modernism, when the contours of the wildness debate were formed and the landscape professions came of age. Simo's book spans half a century, from the year that Charles Sprague Sargent's influential Garden and Forest magazine first ceased publication in 1897 to the appearance in 1949 of two unusual books about land and landscape - Aldo Leopold's Sand County Almanac and Jens Jensen's The Clearing - that marked the beginning of a new ecological awareness."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0813921597 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780813921594 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Landscape architecture United States History.
Landscape changes United States History.
Nature Effect of human beings on United States History.
Architecture du paysage États-Unis Histoire.
Paysages Modifications États-Unis Histoire.
Homme Influence sur la nature États-Unis Histoire.
Landscape architecture.
Landscape changes.
Nature Effect of human beings on.
Landschaftsgarten
Landschaftsentwicklung
United States.
USA.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Forest and garden

Holdings:

Location: Library main 227036
Call No.: SB470.53 .S56 2003
Status: Available

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