The Culture of Nature: North American Landscape from Disney to the Exxon ValdezBetween The Lines, 1991 - 335 páginas In this celebrated work, Alexander Wilson examines environments built over the past fifty years, as humans have continued to discover, exploit, protect, restore, and sometimes re-enchant a natural world in convulsion. Extensively illustrated. |
Índice
Acknowledgements | 7 |
Introduction | 11 |
Recreation and Tourism | 19 |
2 Nature Education and Promotion | 53 |
A Social Ecology of Postwar Landscape Design | 89 |
Nature Movies and TV | 117 |
Worlds Fairs and Theme Parks | 157 |
6 City and Country | 193 |
Nature Parks and Zoos | 223 |
Nuclear Plants and Other Environmental Architectures | 257 |
Notes on Sources | 293 |
Picture Credits | 326 |
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Fantasy City: Pleasure and Profit in the Postmodern Metropolis John Hannigan Pré-visualização indisponível - 1998 |