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Discovering the vernacular landscape

Print Book, English, 1984
Yale University Press, New Haven, 1984
xii, 165 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780300031386, 9780300035810, 0300031386, 0300035810
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The word itself
A pair of ideal landscapes
A puritan looks at scenery
Agrophilia, or the love of horizontal spaces
Country towns for a new part of the country
Vernacular
The movable dwelling and how it came to America
Stone and its substitutes
Craftsman style and technostyle
The origin of parks
Landscape as seen by the military
A vision of new fields
Concluding with landscapes