Landscapes in History: Design and Planning in theWestern Tradition
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THE EUROPEAN LANDSCAPE.

Prehistory: Migration and Adaptation.

Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley.

The Mediterranean Landscape: The Aegean and Greece.

Continental Europe: Agriculture, Feudalism, and Community.

Humanism and Ideal Landscapes.

The Twentieth Century: Modernism and Planning.

THE NORTH AMERICAN LANDSCAPE.

European Colonial Traditions in the New World.

A New Land to Possess: Development of Transportation and Land Tenure Systems.

Utopian Planning in the Romantic Period.

Urban Planning in the Nineteenth Century.

Design for Ostentation: The Late Victorian Eclectic Landscape.

The City Scientific.

To Preserve and Conserve: Protection of Natural and Cultural Resources.

The Automobile Age.

Modern Garden Design and Site Planning.

References.

Source Acknowledgments.

Index.

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