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The Last Landscape.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002Copyright date: ©2002Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (390 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812208504
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Last LandscapeDDC classification:
  • 307.1/216/0973
LOC classification:
  • HT167 -- .W48 2002eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- The Last Landscape -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Politics of Open Space -- THE DEVICES -- 3· The Police Power -- 4. The Fee Simple -- 5· Easements -- 6. The Tax Approach -- 7. Defending Open Space -- THE PLANS -- 8. The Year 2000 plans -- 9. The Green Belts -- 10. Linkage -- 11. The Design of Nature -- DEVELOPMENT -- 12. Cluster Development -- 13· The New Towns -- 14· The Project Look -- 15· Play Areas and Small Spaces -- LANDSCAPE ACTION -- 16. The plan of the Landscape -- 17. Scenic Roads -- 18. Roadsides -- 19· Townscape -- DESIGN AND DENSITY -- 20. The Case for Crowding -- 21. The Last Landscape -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: "For years we wasted land with impunity," William H. Whyte writes in this classic work at last returned to print, "now we no longer can.".
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Intro -- The Last Landscape -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Politics of Open Space -- THE DEVICES -- 3· The Police Power -- 4. The Fee Simple -- 5· Easements -- 6. The Tax Approach -- 7. Defending Open Space -- THE PLANS -- 8. The Year 2000 plans -- 9. The Green Belts -- 10. Linkage -- 11. The Design of Nature -- DEVELOPMENT -- 12. Cluster Development -- 13· The New Towns -- 14· The Project Look -- 15· Play Areas and Small Spaces -- LANDSCAPE ACTION -- 16. The plan of the Landscape -- 17. Scenic Roads -- 18. Roadsides -- 19· Townscape -- DESIGN AND DENSITY -- 20. The Case for Crowding -- 21. The Last Landscape -- Bibliography -- Index.

"For years we wasted land with impunity," William H. Whyte writes in this classic work at last returned to print, "now we no longer can.".

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