Shaping the Postwar Landscape - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shaping the Postwar Landscape write by Charles A. Birnbaum. This book was released on 2018. Shaping the Postwar Landscape available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Shaping the Postwar Landscape is the latest contribution to the Cultural Landscape Foundation's well-known reference project, Pioneers of American Landscape Design, the first volume of which appeared nearly a quarter of a century ago. The present collection features profiles of seventy-two important figures, including landscape architects, architects, planners, artists, horticulturists, and educators. The volume focuses principally on individuals whose careers reached their height during the period between the end of World War II and the American Bicentennial. In that postwar era, landscape architects played an important part in the revitalization of American cities, introducing new typologies for public spaces in the civic realm. Among these were parks that capped freeways, plazas and gardens atop buildings, promenades on revitalized waterfronts, "vest pocket" parks on tiny urban plots and derelict sites, and pedestrian-friendly downtown malls. Practitioners were also active on the new suburban frontier, their influence extending as far as Levittown and mobile-home communities. They created new outdoor living environments tailored to the California climate, and their work shaped landscaped in the American South, East, West, and Heartland. At a time when interest in midcentury architecture is flourishing, Shaping the Postwar Landscape offers a substantial parallel contribution to the field of landscape studies. It belongs not only on the bookshelves of serious students and scholars but in the office of every landscape architect sensitive to significant works of the recent past.
White Ethnic New York
White Ethnic New York - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook White Ethnic New York write by Joshua M. Zeitz. This book was released on 2011-09-01. White Ethnic New York available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Historians of postwar American politics often identify race as a driving force in the dynamically shifting political culture. Joshua Zeitz instead places religion and ethnicity at the fore, arguing that ethnic conflict among Irish Catholics, Italian Catholics, and Jews in New York City had a decisive impact on the shape of liberal politics long before black-white racial identity politics entered the political lexicon. Understanding ethnicity as an intersection of class, national origins, and religion, Zeitz demonstrates that the white ethnic populations of New York had significantly diverging views on authority and dissent, community and individuality, secularism and spirituality, and obligation and entitlement. New York Jews came from Eastern European traditions that valued dissent and encouraged political agitation; their Irish and Italian Catholic neighbors tended to value commitment to order, deference to authority, and allegiance to church and community. Zeitz argues that these distinctions ultimately helped fracture the liberal coalition of the Roosevelt era, as many Catholics bolted a Democratic Party increasingly focused on individual liberties, and many dissent-minded Jews moved on to the antiliberal New Left.
Preserving Modern Landscape Architecture II
Preserving Modern Landscape Architecture II - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Preserving Modern Landscape Architecture II write by Charles A. Birnbaum. This book was released on 2004. Preserving Modern Landscape Architecture II available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "In Preserving Modern Landscape Architecture II: Making Postwar Landscapes Visible, noted historians, writers, preservationists, and landscape architects discuss the challenges of preserving and managing modern landscapes."--BOOK JACKET.
Negotiating Postwar Landscape Architecture
Negotiating Postwar Landscape Architecture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Negotiating Postwar Landscape Architecture write by Jeffrey Scott Fulford. This book was released on 2013. Negotiating Postwar Landscape Architecture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. While documentation of the work of a select group of modernist landscape architects of the mid-twentieth century is available, little is known about the professional contributions of transitional landscape architects active in the period following World War II. Using selected projects framed by existing literature covering contemporary social, economic, political, and artistic influences, this study examines the career of one such transitional figure, Sidney Nichols Shurcliff (1906-1981). Project descriptions and analysis measure the scope of Shurcliff's work and the degree to which he contributed to the discipline and its transition to modernism, thereby augmenting the history of landscape architecture practice.
Pioneers of American Landscape Design
Pioneers of American Landscape Design - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pioneers of American Landscape Design write by Charles A. Birnbaum. This book was released on 1995. Pioneers of American Landscape Design available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
