02744nam a22003017a 4500003000600000005001700006008004100023020001800064020001600082040003400098050002200132082002000154110002400174245018100198250002500379264006000404300004400464336002600508337002800534338002700562500005400589504005100643520161600694650005202310700002602362700001902388710003502407pucpr20191210121035.0180612t20182018vauao    b   s001 0ceng c  a9780813941738  a0813941733   apucprbengcpucprdpucprerda00aSB469.9bS53 201800223a712.092/273  aBirnbaum, Charles A00aShaping the postwar landscapebnew profiles from the pioneers of the American Landscape Design Projectcedited by Charles A. Birnbaum, FASLA, FAAR, and Scott Craver, FAAR.htxt  aFirst Published 2018 1aCharlottesville :bUniversity of Virginia Press,c2018.  axv, 248 p. :bill.; col.;c25 cm.fbook  2rdacontentatextbtxt  2rdamediaaunmediatedbn  2rdacarrieravolumebnc  a"A project of The Cultural Landscape Foundation."  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.  a"'Shaping the Postwar Landscape' is the latest contribution to the Cultural Landscape Foundation's well-known reference project, Pioneers of American Landscape Design, the first volume of which appeared nearly a quarter of a century ago. The present collection features profiles of seventy-two important figures, including landscape architects, architects, planners, artists, horticulturists, and educators. The volume focuses principally on individuals whose careers reached their height during the period between the end of World War II and the American Bicentennial. In that postwar era, landscape architects played an important part in the revitalization of American cities, introducing new typologies for public spaces in the civic realm. Among these were parks that capped freeways, plazas and gardens atop buildings, promenades on revitalized waterfronts, 'vest pocket' parks on tiny urban plots and derelict sites, and pedestrian-friendly downtown malls. Practitioners were also active on the new suburban frontier, their influence extending as far as Levittown and mobile-home communities. They created new outdoor living environments tailored to the California climate, and their work shaped landscaped in the American South, East, West, and Heartland. At a time when interest in midcentury architecture is flourishing, 'Shaping the Postwar Landscape' offers a substantial parallel contribution to the field of landscape studies. It belongs not only on the bookshelves of serious students and scholars but in the office of every landscape architect sensitive to significant works of the recent past"-- 0aLandscape architectszUnited StatesvBiography.1 aBirnbaum, Charles A.,1 aCraver, Scott,2 aCultural Landscape Foundation,