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Shaping the Postwar Landscape - New Profiles from the Pioneers of the American Landscape Design Project (Hardcover)
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Shaping the Postwar Landscape - New Profiles from the Pioneers of the American Landscape Design Project (Hardcover)
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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.
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