| Description |
xii, 372 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Exhibiting wilderness at the Columbian Exposition, 1893 -- 2. Accommodating the nature tourist in the national parks, 1903 -- 3. Putting nature to work with the Tennessee Valley Authority, 1933 -- 4. Nature preserved in the nuclear age: the Case Study Houses of Los Angeles, 1945 -- 5. Closing the circle: the geodesic domes and a new ecological consciousness, 1967 |
| Summary |
"This book explores changing ideas of what nature has meant for the United States and how it has been represented in buildings and landscapes over the past century." "It begins with the close of the frontier and the rise of the conservation movement in the 1890s, and it ends with the opening of the "final" frontier of outer space and the rise of the ecology movement in the 1960s. In this 75-year period, certain American myths about nature have endured while others have been invented, reworked or abandoned. The buildings and landscapes that have resulted from this dynamic process represent the dreams and ambitions of the country for its relationship to nature: the architecture of the national parks, the streamlined dams of the Tennessee Valley Authority, the modernist dream houses of post-war California, and the geodesic domes of the countercultural sixties."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Also available online via the World Wide Web by subscription to netLibrary, Inc. (CEIRC Shared Collection) |
| Subject |
Tennessee Valley Authority.
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Architecture and society -- United States.
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Nature (Aesthetics)
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Wilderness areas in art -- Exhibitions.
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Architectural design -- United States.
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Architecture -- United States -- Philosophy.
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Ecotourism -- United States.
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National parks and reserves -- United States.
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Architecture, Domestic -- United States.
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Geodesic domes -- United States.
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Architecture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Architecture -- Environmental aspects -- United States.
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| Author |
Bonnemaison, Sarah.
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| LC no. |
2002009266 |
| ISBN |
0415283582 hardback |
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0415283590 paperback |
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