Creating the North American Landscape Series

38 primary works • 38 total works
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The Rough Road to Renaissance: Urban Revitalization in America, 1940-1985
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3.93 · 14 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1990 · 3 editions
Describes the attempts of twelve central cities to…

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    To Build in a New Land: Ethnic Landscapes in North America
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    3.00     · 1 Ratings · published 1992 · 3 editions
    Lavishly illustrated with historical photographs, …

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    Cities and Buildings: Skyscrapers, Skid Rows, and Suburbs
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    4.10     · 21 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 1994 · 4 editions
    In this text, Ford offers an account of the relati…

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    The City Beautiful Movement
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    3.42     · 26 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1964 · 6 editions
    Winner of the Lewis Mumford Prize from the Society…

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    The Promise of Paradise: Recreational and Retirement Communities in the United States since 1950
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    0.00     · published 1995 · 2 editions
    In the first geographic and environmental analysis…

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    Greenways for America
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    4.25     · 12 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 1990 · 4 editions
    From Brooklyn's parks and parkways, across the Iow…

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    Everyday Architecture of the Mid-Atlantic: Looking at Buildings and Landscapes
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    4.06     · 35 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 1997 · 4 editions
    From the eighteenth-century single-room "mansions"…

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    Jens Jensen: Maker of Natural Parks and Gardens
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    3.89     · 19 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1992 · 3 editions
    Jens Jensen was one of America's greatest landscap…

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    Magnetic Los Angeles: Planning the Twentieth-Century Metropolis
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    3.66     · 29 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1997 · 4 editions
    Argues that the 20th-century metropolitan region w…

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    The Los Angeles River: Its Life, Death, and Possible Rebirth
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    4.14     · 85 Ratings · 8 Reviews · published 1999 · 4 editions
    Winner of the J. B. Jackson Prize from the Associa…

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    John Nolen and Mariemont: Building a New Town in Ohio
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    4.00     · 1 Ratings · published 2001 · 2 editions
    Winner of the Ohioana Library Association Award To…

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    Suburban Landscapes: Culture and Politics in a New York Metropolitan Community
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    4.00     · 2 Ratings · published 2001 · 5 editions
    Certificate of Commendation from the American Asso…

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    The Unknown World of the Mobile Home
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    3.69     · 16 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 2002 · 4 editions
    In American popular imagination, the mobile home e…

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    The New England Village
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    3.36     · 11 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1997 · 3 editions
    The New England village, with its white-painted, b…

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    Petrolia: The Landscape of America's First Oil Boom
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    3.74     · 23 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2000 · 8 editions
    Winner of the Paul H. Giddens Prize in Oil History…

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    The Pennsylvania Barn: Its Origin, Evolution, and Distribution in North America
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    4.20     · 5 Ratings · published 1978 · 4 editions
    In his widely acclaimed The Pennsylvania Barn , Ro…

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    Homelands: A Geography of Culture and Place across America
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    2.00     · 1 Ratings · published 2002 · 4 editions
    What does it mean to be from somewhere? If most pe…

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    Rediscovering the Great Plains: Journeys by Dog, Canoe, and Horse
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    4.00     · 3 Ratings · published 2001 · 3 editions
    The North American Plains are one of the world's g…

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    A Railroad Atlas of the United States in 1946: Volume 1: The Mid-Atlantic States (Volume 1)
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    4.60     · 5 Ratings · published 2003 · 1 edition
    A pair of gleaming rails embedded in a farmhouse d…

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    A Railroad Atlas of the United States in 1946: Volume 2: New York & New England (Volume 2)
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    4.00     · 1 Ratings · published 2005 · 2 editions
    Whistle-stop posts along a picturesque cycling tra…

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    A Railroad Atlas of the United States in 1946: Volume 3: Indiana, Lower Michigan, and Ohio (Volume 3)
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    4.00     · 1 Ratings · published 2008 · 3 editions
    A Railroad Atlas of the United States in 1946 reca…

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    A Railroad Atlas of the United States in 1946: Volume 4: Illinois, Wisconsin, and Upper Michigan (Volume 4)
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    4.00     · 1 Ratings · published 2011 · 1 edition
    With his meticulously crafted, hand-drawn maps of …

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    A Railroad Atlas of the United States in 1946: Volume 5: Iowa and Minnesota (Volume 5)
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    4.00     · 1 Ratings · published 2013 · 1 edition
    Beautifully drawn color maps portray the U.S. rail…

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    America's Original GI Town: Park Forest, Illinois
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    3.73     · 11 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2000 · 4 editions
    At the close of World War II, Americans became inc…

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    Building San Francisco's Parks, 1850–1930
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    3.25     · 4 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2004 · 4 editions
    In 1865, when San Francisco's Daily Evening Bullet…

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    Appalachian Folkways
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    4.00     · 22 Ratings · 7 Reviews · published 2004 · 2 editions
    Winner of the Kniffen Award and an Honorable Menti…

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    From Tavern to Courthouse: Architecture and Ritual in American Law, 1658-1860
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    0.00     · published 2004 · 1 edition
    During the formative years of the American republi…

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    The Delaware Valley in the Early Republic: Architecture, Landscape, and Regional Identity
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    3.80     · 5 Ratings · published 2004 · 1 edition
    "History, after all, has a corporeal aspect—every …

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    The Planting of New Virginia: Settlement and Landscape in the Shenandoah Valley
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    4.06     · 18 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2004 · 3 editions
    In the eighteenth century, Virginia's Shenandoah V…

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    The Great Society Subway: A History of the Washington Metro
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    4.19     · 464 Ratings · 81 Reviews · published 2006 · 3 editions
    As Metro stretches to Tysons Corner and beyond, th…

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    Baltimore's Alley Houses: Homes for Working People since the 1780s
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    4.06     · 17 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2008 · 1 edition
    Winner, 2009 Abbott Lowell Cummings Prize. Vernacu…

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    Benton MacKaye: Conservationist, Planner, and Creator of the Appalachian Trail
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    3.38     · 13 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2002 · 5 editions
    Planner and originator of the Appalachian Trail an…

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    Entrepreneurial Vernacular: Developers' Subdivisions in the 1920s
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    3.25     · 4 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2001 · 3 editions
    Suburban subdivisions of individual family homes a…

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    Across This Land: A Regional Geography of the United States and Canada
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    3.92     · 40 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2002 · 5 editions
    Based on decades of research and written in clear,…

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    City Building on the Eastern Frontier: Sorting the New Nineteenth-Century City
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    0.00     · published 2004 · 3 editions
    America's westward expansion involved more than pu…

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    Capital's Utopia: Vandergrift, Pennsylvania, 1855-1916
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    3.00     · 2 Ratings · published 2004 · 2 editions
    In the 1890s the Apollo Iron and Steel Company end…

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    Public Markets and Civic Culture in Nineteenth Century America
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    3.75     · 4 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2003 · 3 editions
    In Public Markets and Civic Culture in Nineteenth-…

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    The Cotton Plantation South since the Civil War
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    4.00     · 4 Ratings · published 1998 · 9 editions
    "The plantation,"writes Charles Aiken, "is among t…

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