| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 292 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
"Emerged from a conference 'Landscape and technology, ' held at Odense University in Denmark in January 1997"--Page ix. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Technologies of Landscape / David E. Nye -- Ephemeral Landscapes -- Agricultural Technology and the Ephemeral Landscape / Paul Brassley -- Journey into Space: Interpretations of Landscape in Contemporary Art / James Dickinson -- Inventing Landscapes -- Abandoning Paradise: The Western Pictorial Paradigm Shift around 1420 / Jacob Wamberg -- Employment of the Word: Writing, Topography, and Colonial Landscapes / Tadeusz Rachwal -- Remaking a "Natural Menace": Engineering the Colorado River / David E. Nye -- Resisting Rural Modernity -- Begrudging Aesthetics for a New South: The Farm Security Administration Photographic Project and Southern Modernization, 1935 to 1943 / Stuart Kidd -- Making and Meaning in the English Countryside / Christopher Bailey -- Narrating Pollution -- Public Perceptions of Smoke Pollution in Victorian Manchester / Stephen Mosley -- Narrating the Toxic Landscape in "Cancer Alley," Louisiana / Barbara Allen -- Landscape as Pathway -- Benton MacKaye's Appalachian Trail: Imagining and Engineering a Landscape / Mark Luccarelli -- "The Landscape's Crown": Landscape, Perceptions, and Modernizing Effects of the German Autobahn System, 1934 to 1941 / Thomas Zeller -- Touring Landscapes -- Improvement of Arthur Young: Agricultural Technology and the Production of Landscape in Eighteenth-Century England / Stephen Bending -- Road to Industrial Heterotopia: Landscape, Technology, and George Orwell's Travelogue The Road to Wigan Pier / Pia Maria Ahlback. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Landscape assessment.
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Landscape assessment. |
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on.
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Nye, David E., 1946-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Technologies of landscape. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, ©1999 1558492283 (DLC) 99016762 (OCoLC)41601143 |
| ISBN |
0585342466 (electronic book) |
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9780585342467 (electronic book) |
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