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Taking measures across the American landscape

Corner, James

Taking measures across the American landscape - New Heaven Yale University Press 1996 - xix,185p.

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Foreword, by Michael Van Valkenburgh ix
Preface ix
Introduction xv
Part One: Essays
1. The Measures of America, by Denis Cosgrove 3
2. Aerial Representation and the Making of Landscape 15
3. The American Landscape at Work 21
4. Taking Measure: Irony and Contradiction in an Age of Precision 25
Part Two: Measures
5. Measures of Land 41
6. Measures of Control 69
7. Measures of Rule 97
8. Measures of Fit 121
9. Measures of Faith 149
Notes 175
List of Contributors 181
Index 183
Credits 185

ISBN: 9780300086966

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