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Views landscaping as an expression of a way of life. The subject matter ranges from disquisitions on ordinary houses, yards, farms, and farmsteads to notes on ecology and from the impact of automobile use, mobile homes, shopping centres, and rural and urban planning to philosophical arguments about the meaning of human space.

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Jefferson, Thoreau & after.--The westward-moving house.--Several American landscapes.--Other-directed houses.--Life-worship.--The imitation of nature.--Images of the city.--The stranger's path.--Two street scenes.--The many guises of suburbia.--The almost perfect town.--To pity the plumage and forget the dying bird.--The social landscape.--The public landscape.

Landscapes

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    A Paperback by John Brinckerho Jackson, Ervin H. Zube, Ervin H. Zube

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      Publisher: MP-MAS Uni of Massachusetts
      Publication Date: 6/30/1970 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780870230721, 978-0870230721
      ISBN10: 0870230727

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Views landscaping as an expression of a way of life. The subject matter ranges from disquisitions on ordinary houses, yards, farms, and farmsteads to notes on ecology and from the impact of automobile use, mobile homes, shopping centres, and rural and urban planning to philosophical arguments about the meaning of human space.

      Table of Contents
      Jefferson, Thoreau & after.--The westward-moving house.--Several American landscapes.--Other-directed houses.--Life-worship.--The imitation of nature.--Images of the city.--The stranger's path.--Two street scenes.--The many guises of suburbia.--The almost perfect town.--To pity the plumage and forget the dying bird.--The social landscape.--The public landscape.

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