new profiles from the pioneers of the American Landscape Design Project Birnbaum, Charles A creator Birnbaum, Charles A. Craver, Scott Cultural Landscape Foundation text bibliography biography vau 2018 2018 First Published 2018 monographic eng

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xv, 248 p. : ill.; col.; 25 cm. "'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"-- edited by Charles A. Birnbaum, FASLA, FAAR, and Scott Craver, FAAR. "A project of The Cultural Landscape Foundation." Includes bibliographical references and index. Landscape architects United States Biography SB469.9 S53 2018 712.092/273 9780813941738 0813941733 pucpr 180612 20191210121035.0 eng