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• Title:Landscape architecture in Canada / Ron Williams.
  
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• Author/Creator:Williams, Ron, 1942- author.
  
• Published/Created:Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2014]
  

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• Library of Congress Subjects:Landscape architecture--Canada--History.
  
• Description:viii, 664 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
  
• Summary:"The largest and most pervasive of human artifacts, landscapes are both cultural expressions and environments that shape our actions. Playgrounds, cemeteries, memorials, historic sites, public squares, gardens, industrial rehabilitation sites, wild national parks, and manicured urban parks provide the settings for work, recreation, commerce, memorialization, and mourning and shape the experience and meaning of these activities in Canada. In the first critical history of designed landscapes in our country, Ron Williams approaches landscape architecture as a social art that creates places for people to use and as an environmental art through which practitioners act as stewards of the natural world. Landscape Architecture in Canada provides a detailed panorama of the man-made landscapes that vary as widely as the country's geography."--Jacket.
  
• Local note:UBC Library has a copy donated by the British Columbia Society of Landscape Architects.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 627-651) and index.
  
• ISBN:9780773542068 (bound)
  077354206X (bound)
  
• Contents:Part Landscape heritage of the first nations and colonists
  The Oldest land in the world : the natural landscapes of canada
  Turtle Island : landscapes of Canada's first nations
  Maritime approaches : the first Europeans
  Sacred Land in the New World : the colonial heritage of new France
  Dreams of Empire : The British Colonial tradition
  Promised lands in the west. Part II The Nineteenth century : challenges of an urban and industrial landscape
  The Making of Canada's rural landscape
  The Greening of the urban landscape
  Public and private gardens of the nineteenth century
  Taming the industrial city : City Parks and Rural Cemeteries
  Taming the Industrial City : The great public parks
  Natural monuments : the creation of the national and provincial parks
  New ideals in urban design : Garden City and City Beautiful
  Landscapes of the "Belle Époque." Part III Years of challenge, 1914-1945 : landscape innovations in times of war and depression
  Landscapes of memory : memorials of the First World War
  Private gardens of the Twenties and Thirties
  "The City Efficient" : changing currents of urban development
  Embers in the shadows : remarkable landscape projects of the 1930s. Part IV Birth of the modern landscape, from 1945 to the present day
  Brave new landscapes : the postwar era
  Urban renaissance
  Birth of an environmental conscience
  Beyond modernism : new currents in landscape, 1975-2000
  Landscapes for a multicultural society
  The Twenty-first Century : Canadian landscapes in a time of rapid change
  Epilogue : the conservation of historic and significant landscapes
  Appendix : Glossary of plants mentioned in the text.