Umfang:
400 S.
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Ill., Kt.
,
21 cm
Ausgabe:
First edition
ISBN:
0393733599
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9780393733594
Inhalt:
Architecture and building. Remarks on the fitness of the different styles of architecture for the construction of country residences, and on the employment of vases in garden scenery (1836) -- Hints on the construction of farm-houses (1846) -- The workingman's cottage (1846) -- On country houses (1846) -- Hints to persons about building in the country (1847) -- On the color of country houses (1847) -- On the moral influence of good houses (1848) -- A few words on our progress in building (1851) -- A short chapter on country churches (1851) -- Landscape gardening. Rural embellishments (1832) -- Notes on belts of trees in ornamental plantations (1842) -- A chapter on lawns (1846) -- Hints on flower-gardens (1847) -- How to choose a site for a country seat (1847) -- How to arrange country places (1850) -- The management of large country places (1851) -- A chapter on school houses (1848) -- Parks and other public places. A talk about public parks and gardens (1848) -- Public cemeteries and public gardens (1849) -- The New York park (1851) -- Village beautification. Trees in towns and villages (1847) -- On planting shade trees (1847) -- On the improvement of country villages (1849) -- Our country villages (1850) -- Horticulture. Some remarks on temperature considered in relation to vegetation and the naturalization of plants (1836) -- Notices on the state and progress of horticulture in the United States (1837) -- Great Horticultural Society of the Valley of the Hudson (1838) -- Some remarks on the superiority of native varieties of fruit (1847) -- The influence of horticulture (1847) -- American versus British horticulture (1852) -- Agricultural education. The national ignorance of the agricultural interest (1851) -- A chapter on agricultural schools (1849) -- Address on agricultural education (1851)
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-385) and index
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Architecture and building. Remarks on the fitness of the different styles of architecture for the construction of country residences, and on the employment of vases in garden scenery (1836) -- Hints on the construction of farm-houses (1846) -- The workingman's cottage (1846) -- On country houses (1846) -- Hints to persons about building in the country (1847) -- On the color of country houses (1847) -- On the moral influence of good houses (1848) -- A few words on our progress in building (1851) -- A short chapter on country churches (1851) -- Landscape gardening. Rural embellishments (1832) -- Notes on belts of trees in ornamental plantations (1842) -- A chapter on lawns (1846) -- Hints on flower-gardens (1847) -- How to choose a site for a country seat (1847) -- How to arrange country places (1850) -- The management of large country places (1851) -- A chapter on school houses (1848) -- Parks and other public places. A talk about public parks and gardens (1848) -- Public cemeteries and public gardens (1849) -- The New York park (1851) -- Village beautification. Trees in towns and villages (1847) -- On planting shade trees (1847) -- On the improvement of country villages (1849) -- Our country villages (1850) -- Horticulture. Some remarks on temperature considered in relation to vegetation and the naturalization of plants (1836) -- Notices on the state and progress of horticulture in the United States (1837) -- Great Horticultural Society of the Valley of the Hudson (1838)-- Some remarks on the superiority of native varieties of fruit (1847) -- The influence of horticulture (1847) -- American versus British horticulture (1852) -- Agricultural education. The national ignorance of the agricultural interest (1851) -- A chapter on agricultural schools (1849) -- Address on agricultural education (1851).
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Downing, Andrew J. 1815-1852
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Architekturtheorie
;
Downing, Andrew J. 1815-1852
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Landschaftsgestaltung
;
Ästhetik
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Downing, Andrew J. 1815-1852
;
Landschaftsarchitektur
;
Gartenkunst
;
Theorie
;
Quelle
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