Dilip da Cunha

Gebundenes Buch

The Invention of Rivers

Alexander's Eye and Ganga's Descent

Beschreibung

Featuring more than 150 illustrations, many in color, The Invention of Rivers integrates history, art, cultural studies, hydrology, and geography to tell the story of how rivers have been culturally constructed as lines granted special roles in defining human habitation and everyday practice.

Autor

Dilip da Cunha is an architect and planner working out of Philadelphia and Bangalore and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow. He teaches at Harvard University and Columbia University and is author with Anuradha Mathur of Mississippi Floods: Designing a Shifting Landscape; Soak: Mumbai in an Estuary; and Design in the Terrain of Water.

Produktdetails

• Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture
• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 264mm x 228mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 1274g
• ISBN-13: 9780812249996
• ISBN-10: 0812249992
• Artikelnr.: 53923649