{"product_id":"shaping-the-postwar-landscape-charles-a-birnbaum-9780813941738","title":"Shaping the Postwar Landscape: New Profiles from the Pioneers of American Landscape Design Project","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eShaping the Postwar Landscape\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt a time when interest in midcentury architecture is flourishing, \u003ci\u003eShaping the Postwar Landscape\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Charles A. Birnbaum\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0813941733\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813941738\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Virginia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/09\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.06lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.92h x 7.81w x 0.92d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2019","brand":"Charles A. Birnbaum","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43926420291839,"sku":"9780813941738","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_31fcc60d-f725-4334-be18-0ae8608afa35.jpg?v=1681082988","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/shaping-the-postwar-landscape-charles-a-birnbaum-9780813941738","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}