Building the Nation: Americans Write About Their Architecture, Their Cities, and Their Landscape by Max Page, Steven Conn (Paperback, 2003)

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Moving away from the standard survey that takes readers from architect to architect and style to style, Building the Nation: Americans Write About Their Architecture, Their Cities, and Their Landscape suggests a wholly new way of thinking about the history of America's built environment and how Americans have related to it. Through an enormous range of American voices, some famous and some obscure, and across more than two centuries of history, this anthology shows that the struggle to imagine what kinds of buildings and land use would best suit the nation pervaded all classes of Americans and was not the purview only of architects and designers. Some of the nation's finest writers, including Mark Twain, W. E. B. Du Bois, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Lewis Mumford, E. B. White, and John McPhee, are here, contemplating the American way of building. Equally important are those eloquent but little-known voices found in American newspapers and magazines which insistently wondered what American architecture and environmental planning should look like. Building the Nation also insists that American architecture can be understood only as both a result of and a force in shaping American social, cultural, and political developments. In so doing, this anthology demonstrates how central the built environment has been to our definition of what it is to be American and reveals seven central themes that have repeatedly animated American writers over the course of the past two centuries: the relationship of American architecture to European architecture, the nation's diverse regions, the place and shape of nature in American life, the design of cities, the explosion of the suburbs, the power of architecture to reform individuals, and the role of tradition in a nation dedicated to being perennially young.

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PublisherUniversity of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN-139780812218527
eBay Product ID (ePID)87849377

Product Key Features

Number of Pages424 Pages
Publication NameBuilding the Nation: Americans Write about Their Architecture, Their Cities, and Their Landscape
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2003
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaUrban Planning
AuthorMax Page, Steven Conn
FormatPaperback

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Item Height254 mm
Item Width178 mm

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EditorMax Page, Steven Conn
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
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