Across This Land

John C Hudson

• Paperback | Engels | Creating the North American Landscape
• Based on decades of research and written in clear, concise prose by one of the foremost geographers in North America, John C. Hudson's Across This Lan... Lees meer

Greenways for America

Charles E Little

• Paperback | Engels | Creating the North American Landscape
• From Brooklyn's parks and parkways, across the Iowa prairie, to Big Sur's coastal highway, people are drawing green lines on local maps and building "... Lees meer

The Planting of New Virginia

Warren R Hofstra

• Hardcover | Engels | Creating the North American Landscape
• In the eighteenth century, Virginia's Shenandoah Valley became a key corridor for America's westward expansion through the Cumberland Gap. Known as "N... Lees meer

The Delaware Valley in the Early Republic

Gabrielle M Lanier

• Hardcover | Engels | Creating the North American Landscape
• "History, after all, has a corporeal aspect--every event occupies a physical dimension, and all actions are ultimately grounded, one way or another, i... Lees meer

The Roots of American Industrialization

David R Meyer

• Hardcover | Engels | Creating the North American Landscape
• How did the Eastern United States of the antebellum era make the successful transformation from an agricultural to an industrial economy? Previous stu... Lees meer

Killing Ground

John Huddleston

• Hardcover | Creating the North American Landscape
• John Huddleston embarks on a photographic odyssey through the modern-day landscape of the Civil War. He pairs historical images of the conflict from 6... Lees meer

The Promise of Paradise

Hubert B Stroud

• Paperback | Engels | Creating the North American Landscape
• In the first geographic and environmental analysis of the recreational and retirement community industry, Hubert B. Stroud shows how and why certain c... Lees meer

Everyday Architecture of the Mid-Atlantic

Gabrielle M Lanier, Bernard L Herman

• Paperback | Engels | Creating the North American Landscape
• This richly illustrated volume explores the character of pre-1940 domestic and agricultural buildings in the towns and rural landscapes of southern Ne... Lees meer

Jens Jensen

Robert E Grese

• Paperback | Engels | Creating the North American Landscape
• Jens Jensen was one of America's greatest landscape designers and conservationists. Using native plants and "fitting" designs, he advocated that our g... Lees meer

To Build in a New Land

• Paperback | Engels | Creating the North American Landscape
• Lavishly illustrated with historical photographs, maps, and architectural drawings, To Build in a New Land includes chapters on Ukrainian pioneer land... Lees meer

The City Beautiful Movement

William H Wilson

• Paperback | Engels | Creating the North American Landscape
• Winner of the Lewis Mumford Prize from the Society for American City and Regional Planning HistoryWinner of the Outstanding Book in Architecture and U... Lees meer

Baltimore's Alley Houses

Mary Ellen Hayward

• Hardcover | Engels | Creating the North American Landscape
• Winner, 2009 Abbott Lowell Cummings Prize. Vernacular Architecture Forum This pioneering study explains how one of America's important early cities re... Lees meer

L'Enfant's Legacy

Michael Bednar

• Hardcover | Engels | Creating the North American Landscape
• Outstanding Academic Title for 2007, Choice Magazine Many American democratic ideals are embodied in the public spaces of its cities, especially in Wa... Lees meer

The Great Society Subway

Zachary M Schrag

• Paperback | Engels | Creating the North American Landscape
• As Metro stretches to Tysons Corner and beyond, this paperback edition features a new preface from the author. Drivers in the nation's capital face a ... Lees meer

The Rough Road to Renaissance

Jon C Teaford

• Paperback | Engels | Creating the North American Landscape
• After prospering in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, America's great urban centers faced economic, demographic, and political decline dur... Lees meer

America's Original GI Town

Gregory C Randall

• Paperback | Engels | Creating the North American Landscape
• At the close of World War II, Americans became increasingly concerned about the problem of housing for returning veterans, relocated defense workers, ... Lees meer

Cities and Buildings

Larry R Ford

• Paperback | Engels | Creating the North American Landscape
• In this text, Ford offers an account of the relationship between urban architecture - especially vernacular architecture - and the spatial arrangement... Lees meer

The Pennsylvania Barn

Robert F Ensminger

• Paperback | Engels | Creating the North American Landscape
• In his widely acclaimed The Pennsylvania Barn , Robert Ensminger provided the first comprehensive study of an important piece of American vernacular a... Lees meer

A Railroad Atlas of the United States in 1946

Richard C Carpenter

• Hardcover | Engels | Creating the North American Landscape
• Whistle-stop posts along a picturesque cycling trail. An abandoned roundhouse in a new industrial park. A piece of "Black Diamond" anthracite coal lyi... Lees meer

Invisible New York

Stanley Greenberg

• Hardcover | Engels | Creating the North American Landscape
• Remarkable photographs of a New York even long-time residents have never seen. Invisible New York is a photographic exploration of the hidden and ofte... Lees meer

The Planting of New Virginia

Warren R Hofstra

• Paperback | Engels | Creating the North American Landscape
• In the eighteenth century, Virginia's Shenandoah Valley became a key corridor for America's westward expansion through the Cumberland Gap. Known as "N... Lees meer

The Cotton Plantation South Since the Civil War

Charles S Aiken

• Paperback | Engels | Creating the North American Landscape
• Winner of the J. B. Jackson Prize from the Association of American Geographers Originally published in 1998. "The plantation," writes Charles Aiken, "... Lees meer

Magnetic Los Angeles

Greg Hise

• Paperback | Engels | Creating the North American Landscape
• Argues that the 20th-century metropolitan region was planned--in response to political and economic conditions of the 1920s and the Depression, the de... Lees meer

Across This Land

John C Hudson

• Paperback | Engels | Creating the North American Landscape
• A fascinating overview of the lands and peoples of the United States and Canada, both past and present. Based on decades of research and written in cl... Lees meer