Clare Cardinal-Pett

A History of Architecture and Urbanism in the Americas

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The first comprehensive architecture survey of the Western Hemisphere, combining the latest scholarship about the indigenous past with an environmental history approach covering issues of climate, geology, and biology, so that you'll see the relationship between urban and rural in a new, more inclusive way.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 526
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 287mm x 224mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 2177g
• ISBN-13: 9780415534925
• ISBN-10: 0415534925
• Artikelnr.: 43551419

Autorenporträt

Clare Cardinal-Pett is an Associate Professor of Architecture at Iowa State University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction Origins 1. Settings and Settlements 2000 BCE
2. Early Urban Realms and Ideological Landscapes 0 BCE 3. Cities, States,
and Empires 1000 CE 4. Patterns of European Colonization and Building 1600
CE 5. Key Colonial Towns and Regional Architectural Elements 1760 CE 6.
Architecture and Identity 1800 CE 7. Transportation and Industrialization
1860 CE 8. Beautiful Cities and New Technologies 1900 CE 9. Varieties of
Modernity 1930 CE Futurama Image Credits Bibliography Index