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Landscape Architecture in Canada
Ron Williams
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Description for Landscape Architecture in Canada
A groundbreaking history of the development of designed landscapes in Canada. Num Pages: 672 pages, 354 images, full colour throughout. BIC Classification: 1KBC; AMV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 263 x 44. Weight in Grams: 2442.
The largest and most pervasive of human artifacts, landscapes are both cultural expressions and environments that shape our actions. Playgrounds, cemeteries, memorials, historic sites, public squares, gardens, industrial rehabilitation sites, wild national parks, and manicured urban parks provide the settings for work, recreation, commerce, memorialization, and mourning and shape the experience and meaning of these activities in Canada. In the first critical history of designed landscapes in our country, Ron Williams approaches landscape architecture as a social art that creates places for people to use and as an environmental art through which practitioners act as stewards of the natural world. ... Read more
The largest and most pervasive of human artifacts, landscapes are both cultural expressions and environments that shape our actions. Playgrounds, cemeteries, memorials, historic sites, public squares, gardens, industrial rehabilitation sites, wild national parks, and manicured urban parks provide the settings for work, recreation, commerce, memorialization, and mourning and shape the experience and meaning of these activities in Canada. In the first critical history of designed landscapes in our country, Ron Williams approaches landscape architecture as a social art that creates places for people to use and as an environmental art through which practitioners act as stewards of the natural world. ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2014
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press Canada
Number of pages
672
Condition
New
Number of Pages
672
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Montreal, Canada
ISBN
9780773542068
SKU
V9780773542068
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About Ron Williams
Ron Williams, a longtime professor and former director of the School of Landscape Architecture at the Universite de Montre al, is a practising architect and landscape architect.
Reviews for Landscape Architecture in Canada
" Beautifully written and organized, Landscape Architecture in Canada makes a major contribution to landscape architecture and its related fields - architecture, planning, geography, art history, environmental history, and environmental studies. A first of its kind, this book is a must for all Canadian landscape architects and their students." Susan Herrington, School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, University of British ... Read more