The Planting of New Virginia

Warren R Hofstra

• Hardcover | Engels | Creating the North American Landscape
• In the eighteenth century, Virginia's Shenandoah Valley became a key corridor for America's westward expansion through the Cumberland Gap. Known as "N... Lees meer

The Roots of American Industrialization

David R Meyer

• Hardcover | Engels | Creating the North American Landscape
• Metropolitan regional hinterlands around Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and, to a lesser extent, Baltimore, experienced broadly similar transformatio... Lees meer

The Delaware Valley in the Early Republic

Gabrielle M Lanier

• Hardcover | Engels | Creating the North American Landscape
• "History, after all, has a corporeal aspect--every event occupies a physical dimension, and all actions are ultimately grounded, one way or another, i... Lees meer

The Promise of Paradise

Hubert B Stroud

• Paperback | Engels | Creating the North American Landscape
• In the first geographic and environmental analysis of the recreational and retirement community industry, Hubert B. Stroud shows how and why certain c... Lees meer

Jens Jensen

Robert E Grese

• Paperback | Engels | Creating the North American Landscape
• Jens Jensen was one of America's greatest landscape designers and conservationists. Using native plants and "fitting" designs, he advocated that our g... Lees meer

The City Beautiful Movement

William H Wilson

• Paperback | Engels | Creating the North American Landscape
• Winner of the Lewis Mumford Prize from the Society for American City and Regional Planning HistoryWinner of the Outstanding Book in Architecture and U... Lees meer

To Build in a New Land

• Paperback | Engels | Creating the North American Landscape
• Lavishly illustrated with historical photographs, maps, and architectural drawings, To Build in a New Land includes chapters on Ukrainian pioneer land... Lees meer

The Great Society Subway

Zachary M Schrag

• Paperback | Engels | Creating the North American Landscape
• As Metro stretches to Tysons Corner and beyond, this paperback edition features a new preface from the author. Drivers in the nation's capital face a ... Lees meer

Cities and Buildings

Larry R Ford

• Paperback | Engels | Creating the North American Landscape
• In this text, Ford offers an account of the relationship between urban architecture - especially vernacular architecture - and the spatial arrangement... Lees meer

America's Original GI Town

Gregory C Randall

• Paperback | Engels | Creating the North American Landscape
• At the close of World War II, Americans became increasingly concerned about the problem of housing for returning veterans, relocated defense workers, ... Lees meer

The Rough Road to Renaissance

Jon C Teaford

• Paperback | Engels | Creating the North American Landscape
• After prospering in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, America's great urban centers faced economic, demographic, and political decline dur... Lees meer

The Planting of New Virginia

Warren R Hofstra

• Paperback | Engels | Creating the North American Landscape
• In the eighteenth century, Virginia's Shenandoah Valley became a key corridor for America's westward expansion through the Cumberland Gap. Known as "N... Lees meer

Across This Land

John C Hudson

• Paperback | Engels | Creating the North American Landscape
• A fascinating overview of the lands and peoples of the United States and Canada, both past and present. Based on decades of research and written in cl... Lees meer

Magnetic Los Angeles

Greg Hise

• Paperback | Engels | Creating the North American Landscape
• Argues that the 20th-century metropolitan region was planned--in response to political and economic conditions of the 1920s and the Depression, the de... Lees meer

The Cotton Plantation South Since the Civil War

Charles S Aiken

• Paperback | Engels | Creating the North American Landscape
• Winner of the J. B. Jackson Prize from the Association of American Geographers Originally published in 1998. "The plantation," writes Charles Aiken, "... Lees meer

Building San Francisco's Parks, 1850-1930

Terence Young

• Paperback | Engels | Creating the North American Landscape
• In 1865, when San Francisco's Daily Evening Bulletin asked its readers if it were not time for the city to finally establish a public park, residents ... Lees meer

Hamilton Park

William H Wilson

• Hardcover | Engels | Creating the North American Landscape
• World War II brought staggering changes to Dallas, Texas, as the city became a banking, commercial, and transportation center. The growing population ... Lees meer

Petrolia

Brian Black

• Paperback | Engels | Creating the North American Landscape
• Winner of the Paul H. Giddens Prize in Oil History from Oil Heritage Region, Inc. In Petrolia , Brian Black offers a geographical and social history o... Lees meer

Benton Mackaye

Larry Anderson

• Paperback | Engels | Creating the North American Landscape
• Planner and originator of the Appalachian Trail and a cofounder of the Wilderness Society, Benton MacKaye (1879-1975) was a pioneer in linking the con... Lees meer