The study of the cultural meaning of landscapes is of increasing interest in several fields. This book attempts to open up the subject to a wider audience, and is the first to deal with the basic principles of `reading the landscape'.
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"A superb sourcebook for any course that deals with the interaction of culture and landscape. The various articles are thought-provoking and well-written and the ideas presented are artfully interrelated--one of the best I've found for my course."--M. Jane Young, University of New Mexico
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For most Americans, ordinary man-made landscape is something to be looked at, but seldom thought about. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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For most Americans, ordinary man-made landscape is something to be looked at, but seldom thought about. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, New England, United States, Oxford University Press, Southern California, Association of American Geographers, Geographical Review, Los Angeles, New Mexico, Penguin Books, World War, David Lowenthal, Robert Moses, San Francisco, Yi-fu Tuan, George Stewart, Molly Bloom, Provincial England, Brooklyn Bridge, David Harvey, Englewood Cliffs, Grady Clay, Harvard University Press, Houghton Mifflin, Niagara Falls New!
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