Architecture and nature : creating the American landscape /

• Main Author: Macy, Christine (συγγραφέας.)
• Other Authors: Bonnemaison, Sarah (συγγραφέας.)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.
• Subjects: Αρχιτεκτονική > Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες Αμερικής > Ιστορία > 20ος αιώνας; Αρχιτεκτονική > Περιβαλλοντικές απόψεις > Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες Αμερικής; Ηλεκτρονικά βιβλία

The word "nature" comes from natura, Latin for birth - as do the words nation, native and innate. But nature and nation share more than a common root, they share a common history where one term has been used to define the other. In the United States, the relationship between nation and nat...

Table of Contents:

• Book Cover; Title; Contents; Illustration credits; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Exhibiting wilderness at the Columbian Exposition, 1893; Accommodating the nature tourist in the national parks, 1903; Putting nature to work with the Tennessee Valley Authority, 1933; Nature preserved in the nuclear age: the Case Study Houses of Los Angeles, 1945; Closing the circle: the geodesic domes and a new ecological consciousness, 1967; Selected bibliography; Index.