This essay explores the choices made in how people are building eco-housing themselves and why, what makes eco-housing work, what it is like to live in such dwellings, and what the accompanying constraints and opportunities are.
The article describes how, ultimately, it was precisely the transitory nature of ice that undermined a successful and lasting presentation of power in St. Petersburg, Russia.
In this fictional future history, written by the co-founder of Life magazine, the Persian prince and admiral Khan-Li records his astonishing journey through the ruins of “Nhu-Yok,” the famed city of the extinct “Mehrikan” people.
This book shifts through historical material, Salomon de Caus’s writings, and his extant landscape designs to determine what is fact and what is fiction in the life of this polymathic and prolific figure.
A history of constructed and designed landscapes in the United States’ national parks.
Presents Mesopotamian civilization “from the ground up,” including with reference to a range of climatic and environmental factors.
A collection offering global perspectives on the intersections of mind and environment across a variety of discourses—from history and politics to the visual arts and architecture.
A first attempt at including natural assets into Italian art preservation legislation.
The fire destroys much of Chicago and kills hundreds of people.
The landscape designers Vaux and Olmsted draft plans for New York City’s “Central Park,” a space in which to escape the city’s noise, pollution, and crowding.
