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A Landscape History of New England takes a view of New England’s landscapes that goes beyond picture postcard-ready vistas of white-steepled churches, open pastures, and tree-covered mountains. Its chapters describe, for example, the Native American presence in the Maine Woods; offer a history of agriculture told through stone walls, woodlands, and farm buildings; report(...)
A landscape history of New England
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A Landscape History of New England takes a view of New England’s landscapes that goes beyond picture postcard-ready vistas of white-steepled churches, open pastures, and tree-covered mountains. Its chapters describe, for example, the Native American presence in the Maine Woods; offer a history of agriculture told through stone walls, woodlands, and farm buildings; report on the fragile ecology of tourist-friendly Cape Cod beaches; and reveal the ethnic stereotypes informing Colonial Revivalism. Taken together, they offer a wide-ranging history of New England’s diverse landscapes, stretching across two centuries.
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Roberto Burle Marx (1909–1994) remains one of the most important landscape architects in the history of the field. His distinctive and widely acclaimed work has been featured and referenced in numerous sources, yet few of Burle Marx’s own words have been published. This collection of a dozen of Burle Marx’s lectures, most of which have never before been available in(...)
Roberto Burle Marx lectures: Landscape as art and urbanism
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Roberto Burle Marx (1909–1994) remains one of the most important landscape architects in the history of the field. His distinctive and widely acclaimed work has been featured and referenced in numerous sources, yet few of Burle Marx’s own words have been published. This collection of a dozen of Burle Marx’s lectures, most of which have never before been available in English, fills that void. Delivered on international speaking tours, they address topics such as Concepts in Landscape Composition, Gardens and Ecology and The Problem of Garden Lighting. Their publication sheds light on Burle Marx’s distinctive ethic and aesthetic of landscape, as “the real art in living.” The lectures paint a picture of Burle Marx not just as a gardener, artist and botanist, but as a landscape architect whose ambition was to bring radical change to cities and society.
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Flood : nature and culture
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Withington describes how aspects of floods—the power of nature, human drama, changed landscapes—have fascinated artists, novelists, and filmmakers. He examines the ancient, catastrophic flood that appears in many religions and cultures and considers how the symbol of the flood has become a key icon in world literatures and a component of the contemporary disaster movie.
Flood : nature and culture
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Withington describes how aspects of floods—the power of nature, human drama, changed landscapes—have fascinated artists, novelists, and filmmakers. He examines the ancient, catastrophic flood that appears in many religions and cultures and considers how the symbol of the flood has become a key icon in world literatures and a component of the contemporary disaster movie.
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Desert : nature and culture
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Sand. Cacti. Lizards. Mirages. Deserts call to mind exotic places, a sense of adventure and freedom, but also thirst and desolation. In Desert, Roslynn D. Haynes takes a look at this geographical feature and cultural entity as it becomes an increasingly threatened environment.
Desert : nature and culture
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Sand. Cacti. Lizards. Mirages. Deserts call to mind exotic places, a sense of adventure and freedom, but also thirst and desolation. In Desert, Roslynn D. Haynes takes a look at this geographical feature and cultural entity as it becomes an increasingly threatened environment.
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Lucas describes how bamboo’s special characteristics, such as its ability to grow quickly and thus be an easily replaced resource, offers potential solutions to modern ecological dilemmas. She explores the vital role bamboo plays in the survival of many animals and ecosystems, as well as its use for some of the earliest books ever written, as the framework for houses, and(...)
Bamboo
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Lucas describes how bamboo’s special characteristics, such as its ability to grow quickly and thus be an easily replaced resource, offers potential solutions to modern ecological dilemmas. She explores the vital role bamboo plays in the survival of many animals and ecosystems, as well as its use for some of the earliest books ever written, as the framework for houses, and for musical instruments. As modern research and technologies advance, she explains, bamboo use has increased dramatically—it can now be found in the filaments of light bulbs, airplanes, the reinforcements of concrete, and even bicycles. Filled with illustrations, Bamboo is an interesting new take on a plant that is both very old and very new.
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The yew is the oldest and most common tree in the world, but it is a plant of puzzling contradictions: it is a conifer with juicy scarlet berries, but no cones; deer can feast on its poisonous foliage, but it is lethal to farm animals; and it thrives where other plants cannot because of its extraordinarily low rate of photosynthesis. Exploring this paradoxical plant in(...)
Yew
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The yew is the oldest and most common tree in the world, but it is a plant of puzzling contradictions: it is a conifer with juicy scarlet berries, but no cones; deer can feast on its poisonous foliage, but it is lethal to farm animals; and it thrives where other plants cannot because of its extraordinarily low rate of photosynthesis. Exploring this paradoxical plant in Yew, Fred Hageneder surveys its position in religious and cultural history, its role in the creation of the British Empire, and its place in modern medicine.
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Petite histoire du paysage
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Jardins à l’italienne, à la française ou à l’anglaise, nature sauvage ou nature préservée, bruyère, forêt ou montagne : le paysage, c’est tout cela. Il est même des paysages lunaires, urbains ou encore des paysages d’intérieur. Autrement que la nature qui vit et se transforme indépendamment de sa perception par les hommes, le paysage est toujours déjà un produit de la(...)
Petite histoire du paysage
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Jardins à l’italienne, à la française ou à l’anglaise, nature sauvage ou nature préservée, bruyère, forêt ou montagne : le paysage, c’est tout cela. Il est même des paysages lunaires, urbains ou encore des paysages d’intérieur. Autrement que la nature qui vit et se transforme indépendamment de sa perception par les hommes, le paysage est toujours déjà un produit de la réflexion. Lorsque nous observons un paysage, nous l’interprétons. Métaphores, ambiances et associations d’idées viennent se greffer sur ce que nous voyons. Fondamentalement humain, le paysage est cependant toujours composé d’éléments culturels. Même les paysages urbains et les parcs, endroits complètement artificiels, sont en partie soumis à l’action de la nature. À l’inverse, un paysage n’est jamais purement naturel.
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L'intérêt croissant porté aux paysages constitue une nouvelle avenue pour le développement des territoires ruraux. Largement créés par l’agriculture, les paysages ruraux sont cependant marqués par une uniformisation, souvent interprétée comme une dégradation. Comment aider à façonner l’avenir de ces paysages afin qu’ils deviennent un moteur de nouvelles dynamiques de(...)
Agriculture et paysage : aménager autrement les territoires ruraux
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L'intérêt croissant porté aux paysages constitue une nouvelle avenue pour le développement des territoires ruraux. Largement créés par l’agriculture, les paysages ruraux sont cependant marqués par une uniformisation, souvent interprétée comme une dégradation. Comment aider à façonner l’avenir de ces paysages afin qu’ils deviennent un moteur de nouvelles dynamiques de développement rural?
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Le blocage pavillonaire
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Le « bocage pavillonnaire » désigne à la fois une culture périurbaine spécifique et un paysage dont la haie est l'élément constituant. Faisant la part belle à la parole des habitants, cet ouvrage raconte les pratiques de jardinage et le mode de vie des pavillonnaires des classes moyennes et supérieures en ville nouvelle de Marne-la-Vallée et dans l'agglomération rennaise.
Le blocage pavillonaire
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Le « bocage pavillonnaire » désigne à la fois une culture périurbaine spécifique et un paysage dont la haie est l'élément constituant. Faisant la part belle à la parole des habitants, cet ouvrage raconte les pratiques de jardinage et le mode de vie des pavillonnaires des classes moyennes et supérieures en ville nouvelle de Marne-la-Vallée et dans l'agglomération rennaise.
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Air: nature and culture
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Outside of yoga class, we don’t pay too much attention to the air we take in every day. Long one of the essential elements to life on earth—from the atmospheric composition that gave life to the coal-forming forests some three hundred million years ago to the air that fuels our most important technologies today—we think little of its incredible properties. In this(...)
Air: nature and culture
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Outside of yoga class, we don’t pay too much attention to the air we take in every day. Long one of the essential elements to life on earth—from the atmospheric composition that gave life to the coal-forming forests some three hundred million years ago to the air that fuels our most important technologies today—we think little of its incredible properties. In this innovative cultural and scientific history, Peter Adey takes stock of the great ocean of air that surrounds us, exploring our attempts to understand, engineer, make sense of, and find meaning in it.
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