Landscape History
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The Routledge Companion to Landscape Studies
Series: Routledge International Handbooks
Landscape is a vital, synergistic concept which opens up ways of thinking about many of the problems which beset our contemporary world, such as climate change, social alienation, environmental degradation, loss of biodiversity and destruction of heritage. As a concept, landscape does not respect...
Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge
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Garden and Landscape Practices in Pre-colonial India
Histories from the Deccan
Series: Visual and Media Histories
This book presents a set of new and innovative essays on landscape and garden culture in precolonial India, with a special focus on the Deccan. Most research to date has concentrated on the comparatively well preserved gardens and built landscapes of the celebrated Mughal empire, giving the...
Published February 12th 2012 by Routledge India
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John Nolen and the Metropolitan Landscape
"A model city, the hope of democracy" – John Nolen on his suggested plans for Madison, Wisconsin This book connects John Nolen's political and social visions with his design proposals by analyzing his extensive writings, personal correspondence and some of his most significant works. While...
Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
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Landscape Modernism Renounced
The Career of Christopher Tunnard (1910-1979)
Before the Second World War landscape architect Christopher Tunnard was the first author on Modernism in Landscape in the English language, but later became alarmed by the destructive forces of Post-war reconstruction. Between the 1950s and the 1970s he was in the forefront of the movement to save...
Published June 25th 2009 by Routledge
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Sir John Vanbrugh and the Vitruvian Landscape
Sir John Vanbrugh (1664-1726) was one of the most important figures in English garden history although he is rarely recognised as such. An eclectic early career as a merchant, a soldier and a dramatist preceded Vanbrugh’s acceptance of the role of architect to the Third Earl of Carlisle in...
Published January 9th 2012 by Routledge
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When Modern Was Green
Life and Work of Landscape Architect Leberecht Migge
Winner of the Elisabeth Blair MacDougall Book Award 2013 presented by the Society of Architectural Historians Today, contemporary landscape design is increasingly drawing from ideas of sustainability and ecological stability. Not in fact new, the foundations of this approach stem from...
Published March 24th 2010 by Routledge
