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edited by Arnold R. Alanen and Robert Z. Melnick foreword by Dolores Hayden A distinguished group of contributors addresses the complex academic and practical questions that arise when people set out to designate and preserve a cultural landscape. Center Books on Contemporary Landscape Desi~gn: Frederick R. Steiner. Consulting Editor; ~eorge F. Thompson, Series Founder and Director 264 pp., ?0 illus., $22.50 paper
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PETROLI , The Landscape of America’s First Oil Boom Brian Black "A valuable analysis of the interaction of technology, speculation, and greed in desecrating the western Pennsylvania landscape during the nation’s first oil boom." --Joel A. Tart, Carnegie Mellon University 248 pp., 52 illus., $42.50 cloth
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The Decline and Transformation of the Arnerican Movie Theater Michael Putnam with an introductory essay by Robert Sklar Read Chapter One at ww~v.press.jhu.edu
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"Putnam’s strikingly beautiful photographs document American movie theaters and the passing of that era in American culture. They penetrate the barrier that traditionally separates significant aesthetic achievement and historical events." --James L. Enyeart, Director, The Marion Center for Photographic Arts at the College of Santa Fe 120 pp., 82 photos, $39.95 cloth
LET THE COWBOY RIDE Cattle Ranching in the American West Paul F. Starrs
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SCHOOL OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE PROGRAM The Master of Landscape Architecture program at Louisiana State University provides students with the opportunity to explore the role of nature, culture, and individuals in shaping the built environment through the activity of design. The Lower Mississippi Valley, a rich cultural and natural region, serves as a laboratory for examination of the processes of landscape evolution and design. LSU is a Research University 1, placing it in the top 2 percent of the nation’s colleges and universities. The MLA program belongs to the Southern Academic Common Market, offering students from five southern states resident tuition. Assistantships and other financial aid are available to qualified applicants. Study tracks for students with degrees in design fields and for those seeking a first professional degree with bachelor’ s degrees from other fields accommodate a range of individual student interests. For further information contact: Sadik Artunc, Graduate Coordinator Graduate Studies in Landscape Architecture School of Landscape Architecture 302 New Design Building Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803 e-mail:
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The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign School of Architecture and Department of Landscape Architecture announce the offering of
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MODERN LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE A Critical Review edited by Marc Treib "An important resource for serious researchers of the role played by the United States in the development of a modem landscape architecture, this is also a book to be dipped into with great pleasure, sampling here and there." -- Elsa Leviseur, Architectural Review 306 pp., 285 illus. $34.95 paper
INVISIBLE GARDENS The Search for Modemism in the American Landscape by Peter Walker and Melanie Simo Invisible Gardens is a composite history of the individuals and firms that defined the field of landscape architecture in America from 1925 to 1975, a period that spawned a significant body of work combining social ideas of enduring value with landscapes and gardens that forged a modem aesthetic. 384 pp., 157 illus., 12 color $29.95 paper
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Elysium Britannieum, or the Royal Gardens John Evelyn Edited by John E. Ingram Until now, the entire Elysium Britannicum, or The Royal Gardens original has never appeared in print. In an impressive transcription, John E. In,gram makes the document accessible to a wide range of scholars. Complete with Evelyn s extensive marginalia, inter-
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Gardens of Colony and State Gardens and Gardeners of the American Colonies and
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HUMPHREY REPTON Landscape Gardening and the Geography of Georgian England
Stephen Daniels "Stimulating and beautifully produced.., should occupy a central place in the interdisciplinary investigation which has developed over the past two decades in the eighteenth century’s relationship to landscape and nature."--Jenny Uglow, Times Literary Supplement Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art 139 b/w + 153 colorplates $60,00
THE ARTIST AND THE GARDEN Roy Strong This extraordinarily beautiful book gathers together and examines a delightful collection of English gardens rendered by artists from 1540 to the early 1800s and explains what gardens meant to those who owned and portrayed them. Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art 140 b/w + 220 color illus. $50.00
THE NATURE OF
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