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Design with culture : claiming America's landscape heritage

Title
Design with culture : claiming America's landscape heritage / edited by Charles A. Birnbaum and Mary V. Hughes.
Publication
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2005.

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  • Birnbaum, Charles A.
  • Hughes, Mary V., 1952-
Description
viii, 215 p. : ill., map; 24 cm.
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Note
  • Papers from a conference held in the Bronx, New York, on April 17, 1999.
  • "A project supported by the Cultural Landscape Foundation and the National Park Service Historic Landscape Initiative."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : Landscape preservation in context, 1890-1950 / Charles A. Birnbaum and Mary V. Hughes -- Grounding memory and identity : pioneering garden club projects documenting historic landscape traditions of the American South / Catherine Howett -- "If Washington were here himself, he would be on my side" : Charles Sprague Sargent and the preservation of the Mount Vernon landscape / Phyllis Andersen -- Morley Jeffers Williams : a pioneer of landscape archaeology / Thomas E. Beaman Jr. -- "The fading landscape" : Arthur A. Shurcliff's evolving perceptions of landscape preservation / Elizabeth Hope Cushing -- "Californio" culture and landscapes, 1894-1942 : entwining myth and romance with preservation / David C. Streatfield -- Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. : history, preservation, and the planning process / Cynthia Zaitzevsky -- The "noblest landscape problem" : Thomas C. Vint and landscape preservation / Ethan Carr -- The Blue Ridge Parkway : road to the modern preservation movement / Ian Firth.
Call Number
JFE 05-10867
ISBN
  • 0813923298 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0813923301 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2004017412
OCLC
56068690
Title
Design with culture : claiming America's landscape heritage / edited by Charles A. Birnbaum and Mary V. Hughes.
Imprint
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2005.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Birnbaum, Charles A.
Hughes, Mary V., 1952-
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