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- Book Title
- Building the Nation
- Publication Name
- Building the Nation : Americans Write about Their Architecture, Their Cities, and Their Landscape
- Title
- Building the Nation
- Subtitle
- Americans Write About Their Architecture, Their Cities, and Their
- Contributor
- Max Page (Edited by)
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0812218523
- EAN
- 9780812218527
- ISBN
- 9780812218527
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Genre
- Architecture & Antiques
- Topic
- History
- Release Year
- 2003
- Release Date
- 23/06/2003
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Item Length
- 10in
- Publication Year
- 2003
- Type
- Textbook
- Item Width
- 7in
- Item Weight
- 23.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 424 Pages
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Moving away from the standard survey that takes readers from architect to architect and style to style, Building the Nation: Americans Write About Their Architecture, Their Cities, and Their Landscape suggests a wholly new way of thinking about the history of America's built environment and how Americans have related to it. Through an enormous range of American voices, some famous and some obscure, and across more than two centuries of history, this anthology shows that the struggle to imagine what kinds of buildings and land use would best suit the nation pervaded all classes of Americans and was not the purview only of architects and designers. Some of the nation's finest writers, including Mark Twain, W. E. B. Du Bois, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Lewis Mumford, E. B. White, and John McPhee, are here, contemplating the American way of building. Equally important are those eloquent but little-known voices found in American newspapers and magazines which insistently wondered what American architecture and environmental planning should look like. Building the Nation also insists that American architecture can be understood only as both a result of and a force in shaping American social, cultural, and political developments. In so doing, this anthology demonstrates how central the built environment has been to our definition of what it is to be American and reveals seven central themes that have repeatedly animated American writers over the course of the past two centuries: the relationship of American architecture to European architecture, the nation's diverse regions, the place and shape of nature in American life, the design of cities, the explosion of the suburbs, the power of architecture to reform individuals, and the role of tradition in a nation dedicated to being perennially young.
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Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN-10
0812218523
ISBN-13
9780812218527
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2470649
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Building the Nation : Americans Write about Their Architecture, Their Cities, and Their Landscape
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2003
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
424 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
10in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
7in
Item Weight
23.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Na705.B759 2003
Reviews
"This anthology will undoubtedly open new paths of inquiry into the making, shaping, preservation, and use of the American landscape."-Daniel Bluestone, University of Virginia, "Some anthologies seem slapdash or opportunistic; others are labors of love, informed by a mastery of a particular field and a passion for sharing the heterogeneous richness of their documents. Building the Nation is happily one of the latter. . . . Vastly useful."- Preservation, This anthology will undoubtedly open new paths of inquiry into the making, shaping, preservation, and use of the American landscape., Some anthologies seem slapdash or opportunistic; others are labors of love, informed by a mastery of a particular field and a passion for sharing the heterogeneous richness of their documents. Building the Nation is happily one of the latter. . . . Vastly useful., "This anthology will undoubtedly open new paths of inquiry into the making, shaping, preservation, and use of the American landscape."--Daniel Bluestone, University of Virginia, "Some anthologies seem slapdash or opportunistic; others are labors of love, informed by a mastery of a particular field and a passion for sharing the heterogeneous richness of their documents. Building the Nation is happily one of the latter. . . . Vastly useful."-- Preservation, "Some anthologies seem slapdash or opportunistic; others are labors of love, informed by a mastery of a particular field and a passion for sharing the heterogeneous richness of their documents. Building the Nation is happily one of the latter. . . . Vastly useful."--Preservation
Table of Content
Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. "They Do Things Better in Europe": Americans View the World Chapter 3. So Glorious a Landscape: Shaping Nature the American Way Chapter 4. One Nation, of Many Parts: Regionalism and the Built Environment Chapter 5. Urbanism, Real and Imagined Chapter 6. Taming the Crabgrass Frontier: The Triumph of the Suburbs Chapter 7. Better Buildings, Better People: American Architecture and Social Reform Chapter 8. Monuments and Memory: Building and Protecting the American Past Index Acknowledgments
Copyright Date
2003
Target Audience
College Audience
Topic
Regional, United States / General, History / General, Sociology / Urban
Lccn
2003-048413
Dewey Decimal
720/.973
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Architecture, History, Social Science
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