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Flights of Imagination: Aviation, Landscape, Design
Sonja Dümpelmann
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Hardcover. Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AMG; AMV; KNGV1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 28. Weight in Grams: 894.
In much the same way that views of the Earth from the Apollo missions in the late 1960s and early 1970s led indirectly to the inauguration of Earth Day and the modern environmental movement, the dawn of aviation ushered in a radically new way for architects, landscape designers, urban planners, geographers, and archaeologists to look at cities and landscapes. As icons of modernity, airports facilitated the development of a global economy during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, reshaping the way people thought about the world around them. Professionals of the built environment awoke to the possibilities offered by the ... Read more
In much the same way that views of the Earth from the Apollo missions in the late 1960s and early 1970s led indirectly to the inauguration of Earth Day and the modern environmental movement, the dawn of aviation ushered in a radically new way for architects, landscape designers, urban planners, geographers, and archaeologists to look at cities and landscapes. As icons of modernity, airports facilitated the development of a global economy during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, reshaping the way people thought about the world around them. Professionals of the built environment awoke to the possibilities offered by the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813935812
SKU
V9780813935812
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Ref
99-14
About Sonja Dümpelmann
Sonja Dümpelmann, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at Harvard University, USA, is the coeditor, with Dorothee Brantz, of Greening the City: Urban Landscapes in the Twentieth Century (Virginia).
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