Taking Measures Across the American Landscape

by James Corner and Alex S. MacLean

Book Overview

Only in the past century have Americans been able to see their country from the air, to view its majestic natural and manmade topography and muse how it came to look the way it does. Landscape architect James Corner and aerial photographer Alex MacLean now present breathtaking photographs, exquisite map-drawings, and thoughtful essays that record their flights across the continental United States and express their growing understanding of the way...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300086962
• ISBN13: 9780300086966
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 185 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 10.7" x 9.7"