History of Architecture and Urbanism in the Americas

Informationen zum Autor Clare Cardinal-Pett is an Associate Professor of Architecture at Iowa State University, USA. Klappentext The first comprehensive architecture survey of the Western Hemisphere, combining 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. Zusammenfassung The first comprehensive architecture survey of the Western Hemisphere, combining 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Clare Cardinal-Pett, Cardinal-Pett Clare
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.01.2016
• EAN: 9780415534925
• ISBN: 978-0-415-53492-5
• No. of pages: 526
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; ARCHITECTURE / History / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Indigenous Peoples, Relating to indigenous peoples, History of Architecture, The Americas, Urban communities, Indigenous styles