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A History of Architecture and Urbanism in the Americas is the first comprehensive survey to narrate the urbanization of the Western Hemisphere, from the Arctic Circle to Antarctica, making it a vital resource to help you understand the built environment in this part of the world. The book combines 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.

Author Clare Cardinal-Pett tells the story chronologically, from the earliest-known human migrations into the Americas to the 1930s to reveal information and insights that weave across time and place so that you can develop a complex and nuanced understanding of human-made landscape forms, patterns of urbanization, and associated building typologies. Each chapter addresses developments throughout the hemisphere and includes information from various disciplines, original artwork, and historical photographs of everyday life, which - along with numerous maps, diagrams, and traditional building photographs - will train your eye to see the built environment as you read about it.

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• 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

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CHOICE Review

In this remarkably ambitious undertaking, Cardinal-Pett (Iowa State Univ.) provides a reliable, comprehensive overview of the built environment in the Western Hemisphere, beginning with the earliest human habitation and ending in the mid-20th century. Formatted as a textbook, the book comprises nine chapters bracketed by an introduction, prologue, and epilogue. Each chapter begins with a summary of the material to be covered and questions to be answered, and each ends with a summary, questions for discussion, and suggestions for further reading. Handsome and illuminating photographs, clear and informative diagrams, and text boxes elaborating on key issues augment the text. As the narrative moves closer to the present it becomes increasingly difficult to select issues and examples that represent the most significant developments in the built environments in the divergent cultures of the Americas. The book can be appreciated from several perspectives: as a reliable reference and a source of enjoyment and enlightenment, as well as a useful undergraduate textbook. This beautiful publication is a valuable resource and should have a long life. Summing Up: Essential. All readers. --David Sachs, Kansas State University

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