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Metropolitan Natures
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Author : Stéphane Castonguay
language : en
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
Release Date : 2011
Metropolitan Natures written by Stéphane Castonguay and has been published by University of Pittsburgh Pre this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with History categories.
Metropolitan Natures presents original histories of the diverse environments that constitute Montreal and its region. It explores the agricultural and industrial transformation of the metropolitan area, the interaction of city and hinterland, and the interplay of humans and nature.
Metropolitan Natures
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Author : Stephane Castonguay
language : en
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Release Date : 2011-07-30
Metropolitan Natures written by Stephane Castonguay and has been published by University of Pittsburgh Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-30 with History categories.
One of the oldest metropolitan areas in North America, Montreal has evolved from a remote fur-trading post in New France into an international center for services and technology. A city and an island located at the confluence of the Ottawa and St. Lawrence Rivers, it is uniquely situated to serve as an international port while also providing rail access to the Canadian interior. The historic capital of the Province of Canada, once Canada's foremost metropolis, Montreal has a multifaceted cultural heritage drawn from European and North American influences. Thanks to its rich past, the city offers an ideal setting for the study of an evolving urban environment. Metropolitan Natures presents original histories of the diverse environments that constitute Montreal and it region. It explores the agricultural and industrial transformation of the metropolitan area, the interaction of city and hinterland, and the interplay of humans and nature. The fourteen chapters cover a wide range of issues, from landscape representations during the colonial era to urban encroachments on the Kahnawake Mohawk reservation on the south shore of the island, from the 1918-1920 Spanish flu epidemic and its ensuing human environmental modifications to the urban sprawl characteristic of North America during the postwar period. Situations that politicize the environment are discussed as well, including the economic and class dynamics of flood relief, highways built to facilitate recreational access for the middle class, power-generating facilities that invade pristine rural areas, and the elitist environmental hegemony of fox hunting. Additional chapters examine human attempts to control the urban environment through street planning, waterway construction, water supply, and sewerage.
Nature S Metropolis Chicago And The Great West
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Author : William Cronon
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2009-11-02
Nature S Metropolis Chicago And The Great West written by William Cronon and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11-02 with History categories.
A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and Winner of the Bancroft Prize. "No one has written a better book about a city…Nature's Metropolis is elegant testimony to the proposition that economic, urban, environmental, and business history can be as graceful, powerful, and fascinating as a novel." —Kenneth T. Jackson, Boston Globe
Integrating Man And Nature In The Metropolitan Environment
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Author : Lowell W. Adams
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
Integrating Man And Nature In The Metropolitan Environment written by Lowell W. Adams and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Nature categories.
Papers and a poster session on urban and suburban wildlife conservation.
Metropolitan And Town Sewage Their Nature Value And Disposal C
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Author : Augustin Sayer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1857
Metropolitan And Town Sewage Their Nature Value And Disposal C written by Augustin Sayer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1857 with categories.
Metropolitan And Town Sewage Their Nature Value And Disposal With Sketches Of The Metropolitan Water Supply And Of The Legislation On Sewers Ancient And Modern
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Author : Augustin SAYER
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1857
Metropolitan And Town Sewage Their Nature Value And Disposal With Sketches Of The Metropolitan Water Supply And Of The Legislation On Sewers Ancient And Modern written by Augustin SAYER and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1857 with London categories.
Green Metropolis
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Author : Elizabeth Barlow Rogers
language : en
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date : 2016-04-19
Green Metropolis written by Elizabeth Barlow Rogers and has been published by Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-19 with History categories.
Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, the woman who launched the restoration of Central Park in the 1980s, now introduces us to seven remarkable green spaces in and around New York City, giving us the history—both natural and human—of how they have been transformed over time. Here we find: The greenbelt and nature refuge that runs along the spine of Staten Island on land once intended for a highway, where mushrooms can be gathered and, at the right moment, seventeen-year locusts viewed. Jamaica Bay, near John F. Kennedy International Airport, whose mosaic of fragile, endangered marshes has been preserved as a bird sanctuary on the Atlantic Flyway, full of egrets, terns, and horseshoe crabs. Inwood Hill, in upper Manhattan, whose forest once sheltered Native Americans and Revolutionary soldiers before it became a site for wealthy estates and subsequently a public park. The Central Park Ramble, an artfully designed wilderness in the middle of the city, with native and imported flora, magnificent rock outcrops, and numerous species of resident and migrating birds. Roosevelt Island, formerly Welfare Island, in the East River, where urban planners built a “new town in town” in the 1970s and whose southern tip is the dramatic setting for the Louis Kahn–designed memorial to Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Freshkills, the unusual twenty-two-hundred-acre park on Staten Island that is being created out of what was once the world’s largest landfill. The High Line, in Manhattan’s Chelsea and West Village neighborhoods, an aerial promenade built on an abandoned elevated rail spur with its native grasses and panoramic views of the Hudson River and the downtown cityscape. Full of the natural history of the parks along with interesting historical facts and interviews with caretakers, guides, local residents, guardians, and visitors, this beautifully illustrated book is a treasure trove of information about the varied and pleasurable green spaces that grace New York City.
The Humane Metropolis
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Author : Rutherford H. Platt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
The Humane Metropolis written by Rutherford H. Platt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Political Science categories.
Exploring the prospects for a more humane metropolis through a series of essays and case studies that consider why and how urban places can be made greener and more amenable, this book examines topics such as urban and regional greenspaces, urban ecological restoration, social equity, and green design.
Poussin And Nature
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Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
language : en
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Release Date : 2008
Poussin And Nature written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and has been published by Metropolitan Museum of Art this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Classicism in art categories.
"The work of the great French painter Nicolas Poussin (15941665) is most often associated with classically inspired settings and figures depicting solemn scenes from mythology or the Bible. Yet he also created some of the most influential landscapes in Western art, endowing them with a poetic quality that has been admired by artists as different as Constable, Turner, and Ce;zanne. As the British critic William Hazlitt noted in 1844, 'This great and learned man might be said to see nature through the glass of time'. This beautiful catalogue presents the first in-depth examination of Poussin's landscapes. Featured here are more than 40 paintings, ranging from the artist's early Venetian-inspired pastorals to his grandly structured and austere works, designed as metaphors or allegories for the processes of nature. Also included are approximately 60 drawings and essays by internationally renowned scholars who examine the painter's visual, literary, and philosophical influences as well as his relationships with his patrons and his place in the art-historical canon."--Publisher description.
Understanding Metropolitan Landscapes
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Author : Andrew MacKenzie
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-10-02
Understanding Metropolitan Landscapes written by Andrew MacKenzie and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-02 with Architecture categories.
Understanding Metropolitan Landscapes considers and reflects on the fundamental relationships between metropolitan regions and their landscapes. It investigates how planning and policy help to protect, manage and enhance the landscapes that sustain our urban settlements. As global populations become more metropolitan, landscapes evolve to become increasingly dynamic and entropic; and the distinction between urban and non-urban is further fragmented and yet these spaces play an increasingly important role in sustainable development. This book opens a key critical discussion into the relational aspects of city and landscape and how each element shapes the boundaries of the other, covering topics such as material natures, governance systems, processes and policy. It presents a compendium of concepts and ideas that have emerged from landscape architecture, planning, and environmental policy and landscape management. Using a range of illustrated case studies, it provokes discussions on the major themes driving the growth of cities by exploring the underlying tensions around notions of sustainable settlement, climate change adaption, urban migration, new modes of governance and the role of landscape in policy and decision making at national, provincial and municipal levels.