Jens Jensen

Author : Robert E. Grese
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0801859476

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Jens Jensen by Robert E. Grese Pdf

Jens Jensen was one of America's greatest landscape designers and conservationists. Using native plants and "fitting" designs, he advocated that our gardens, parks, roads, playgrounds, and cities should be harmonious with nature and its ecological processes--a belief that was to become a major theme of modern American landscape design. When Jensen died in 1951 at the age of 90, the New York Times called him "the dean of American landscape architecture." In Jens Jensen: Maker of Natural Parks and Gardens, Robert E. Grese evaluates Jensen's work against the background of landscape design traditions that included Andrew Jackson Downing and Frederick Law Olmsted, as well as earlier movements in Europe. Grese examines Jensen's part in the Chicago cultural renaissance that occurred just prior to World War I, a movement that brought social reform, a new understanding of ecology, organic trends in architecture, and great strides in American literature. Drawing on Jensen's writings and plans, interviews with people who knew him, and analyses of his projects, Grese presents a clear picture of Jensen's efforts to enhance and preserve "native" landscapes. Jens Jensen worked with some of the leading architects of his day--Sullivan and Wright among them--so many of his projects involved the extravagant estates of wealthy entrepreneurs in Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and elsewhere. But Jensen also worked on schools, parks, playgrounds, hospitals, institutional homes, and government buildings. Long before environmental activists took over the idea, he foresaw the need to preserve the dunes, forests, prairies, and wetlands native to the Middle West. He championed the network of forest preserves around Chicago, protection of the Indiana Dunes (now a national lakeshore), the state park system in Illinois, and numerous parks in Wisconsin. Jens Jensen: Maker of Natural Parks and Gardens offers a compelling look at Jensen's visionary work and remarkable career.

Author : William H. Tishler
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-28
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9780870206054

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Jens Jensen by William H. Tishler Pdf

Jens Jensen (1860-1951) was one of America's most distinguished landscape architects and a pioneering conservationist. During his long and productive career, this Danish-born visionary worked for and with some of the country's most prominent citizens and architects, including Henry Ford, Louis Sullivan, and Frank Lloyd Wright. He became internationally renowned for his design of landscapes throughout the Midwest and beyond, his contributions to the American conservation movement, and his design philosophy that emphasized the significance of nature in people's lives. He found inspiration in the landscape, particularly the plants native to a region, and was an environmentalist long before the term became popular. Today, Jensen is perhaps best remembered for establishing The Clearing on Wisconsin's Door County Peninsula. But the outspoken views in his writings - many of which were included in ephemeral planning reports, early newspapers, and now out-of-print journals - are virtually forgotten, with the exception of his two small books. "Jens Jensen: Writings Inspired by Nature" is an anthology of Jensen's most significant yet lesser-known articles, including a "Saturday Evening Post" piece that enabled him to reach the largest audience of his publishing career. The scope of Jensen's thoughts represented in this collection will further solidify his legacy and rightful place alongside conservation leaders such as John Muir and Aldo Leopold.

Author : Jens Jensen
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1990-04
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 080184021X

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Siftings by Jens Jensen Pdf

Jens Jensen was one of America's greatest landscape designers and conservationists. Using native plants and "fitting" designs, he introduced the influential Prairie Style of landscape architecture. He championed the preservation of natural landscapes such as the Indiana Dunes (now a national lakeshore), the State Park System in Illinois, and numerous parks in Wisconsin. When he died in 1951 at the age of 90, the New York Times called him the "dean of American landscape architecture." Now that environmental issues have recaptured public attention, Jensen's visionary work and remarkable career are being rediscovered by a new generation of admirers.

Author : Han Lörzing
Publisher : 010 Publishers
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Landscape
ISBN : 9064504083

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The Nature of Landscape by Han Lörzing Pdf

Author : Theresa Mattor,Lucie Teegardeb
Publisher : Down East Books
Page : 682 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-16
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780892728855

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Designing the Maine Landscape by Theresa Mattor,Lucie Teegardeb Pdf

Frederick Law Olmsted and others saw the landscape as it was and enhanced it, instead of imposing rigid design upon it. Groundbreaking landscape architects Beatrix Farrand and Fletcher Steele, among others, were brought to Maine by patrons, and the resulting public parks, campuses, institutional grounds, and private estates remain a priceless legacy. Drawn from a 10-year survey conducted by the Maine Olmsted Alliance, this book showcases those landscapes and celebrates their history and legacy.

Author : Doris Marciel,Hayward Area Historical Society
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467100656

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Legendary Locals of Castro Valley, Hayward, and San Lorenzo, California by Doris Marciel,Hayward Area Historical Society Pdf

The Hayward area is a region in California made up of a city, Hayward, and two unincorporated towns, San Lorenzo and Castro Valley. The three communities share a common history, but each has unique individual stories--such as failed gold miner and entrepreneur William Hayward, who established a stagecoach stop and boardinghouse in 1851 that quickly attracted a diverse group of settlers and led to the establishment of the city of Hayward. Other legendary locals include Castro Valley historian Lucille Lorge, whose grandfather owned the first business in Castro Valley; English sailor Harry Rowell, who jumped ship in San Francisco Bay and was later known as the "King of the Rodeo" for his rodeo stock; and San Lorenzo Village developer David Bohannon, who changed the San Lorenzo farming area into a sprawling suburban center and the first planned community during World War II.

Author : Tyge Krogh,Louise Nyholm Kallestrup,Claus Bundgård Christensen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351691086

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Cultural Histories of Crime in Denmark, 1500 to 2000 by Tyge Krogh,Louise Nyholm Kallestrup,Claus Bundgård Christensen Pdf

Taking the kingdom of Denmark as its frame of reference, this volume presents a range of close analyses that shed light on the construction and deconstruction of crime and criminals, on criminal cultures and on crime control from 1500 to 2000. Historically, there have been major changes in the legal definition of those acts that are legally defined as being criminal offences – and of those that are not. This volume explores the criteria and perceptions underlying definitions of crime in a powerful and absolutist Lutheran state and subsequently in a Denmark characterised by social welfare and sexual liberation. It places special focus on moral issues rooted in considerations of religion and sexuality.

Author : Otto Vaupell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10452829

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Kampen for Sønderjylland 1848 - 50 by Otto Vaupell Pdf

Author : Jens Jensen,Allan R. Mackintosh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1991-06-13
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39015022268950

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Rare Earth Magnetism by Jens Jensen,Allan R. Mackintosh Pdf

This monograph presents a unified and coherent account of an important, focused area of rare-earth magnetism -- magnetic structures and excitations -- which both reflects the nature of the fundamental magnetic interactions and determines many of the characteristic properties of metals. The authors concentrate on the essential principles and their applications to typical examples, generally restricting the discussion to the pure elements and considering alloys and compounds only when they are instructive in illuminating particular topics. Both authors have been involved for some time in the effort that has been made in Denmark to study, both theoretically and experimentally, the magnetic structures and especially the excitations in the rare earths. This account of the subject represents the result of their experience, and it has been written in the hope that it will be useful not only to those who have a special interest in rare-earth magnetism, but also to a wider audience of physicists and condensed matter scientists interested in the techniques and achievements of modern research in magnetism.

Author : Morten Høi Jensen
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300218930

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A Difficult Death by Morten Høi Jensen Pdf

While largely unknown today, Danish writer Jens Peter Jacobsen was the leading prose writer in Scandinavia in the late nineteenth century. Despite his untimely death from tuberculosis at the age of thirty-eight, Jacobsen became a cult figure to an entire generation and continues to occupy an important place in Scandinavian cultural history. In this book, Morten Høi Jensen gives a moving account of Jacobsen's life, work, and death.--Adapted from book jacket.

Author : Bjarne Grønnow,Jens Fog Jensen
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2003-10-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8763512629

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The Northernmost Ruins of the Globe by Bjarne Grønnow,Jens Fog Jensen Pdf

An important part of the heritage of Count Eigil Knuth (1903-1996) is his archaeological archive contaning contextual information on prehistoric sites gathered during six decades of research in High Arctic Greenland. The finds and observations are a key to the understanding of human life under extreme conditions in a long-term perspective and represent a unique piece of evidence concerning the early cultural history of the Eastern Arctic. Knuth's expeditions from 1932 to 1995 took him to Greenland and Canada, in particular High Arctic Greenland. In a number of important articles Knuth published the findings dating back to the earliest human settlement in Greenland. However, he never managed to present the complete body of information and results from his many investigations. The present authors have thus compiled a computer database on the basis on his archive, which constitutes the starting point of the present book. The book focuses on Knuth's most substantial contribution to archaeology: the prehistory of Peary Land and adjacent areas. In the catalog, emphasis has been placed on topographical and architectural information, site structure, artefact statistics and radiocarbon dates. A total of 154 archaeological sites are presented. Fifty-one sites with a total of 244 features are Independence I sites (c. 2460-1860 cal. BC), twenty-three sites with a total of 416 features belong to Independence II (c. 900-400 cal. BC) and sixty-three sites with a total of 626 features are of Thule origin (c. 1400-1500 ca. AD). This study presents some new information on the faunal material from Peary Land based on Christyann Darwent's recent analyses as well as new data on the dwelling features on the Adam C. Knuth Site, which was visited by a multidisciplinary team in 2001. It also offers an introduction presenting an overview and evaluation of Knuth's remarkable curriculum vitae as an independent arctic archaeologist. In the concluding chapters some basic statistics on the archaeological sites are presented. We evaluate Knuth's radiocarbon datings of the Independence I, Independence II and Thule cultures in High Arctic Greenland, and settlement distributions and settlement patterns for the three cultures represented in Peary Land are discussed.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Cultural property
ISBN : IND:30000062946797

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CRM by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2482 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Corporations
ISBN : UCLA:L0096839329

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Who Owns Whom by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Robert Christianson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 052165081X

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On Tycho's Island by John Robert Christianson Pdf

This book explores Brahe's wide range of activities which encompass much more than his reputed role of astronomer. Christianson broadens this singular perspective by portraying Brahe as Platonic philosopher, Paracelsian chemist, Ovidian poet, and devoted family man. This pioneering study includes capsule biographies of over 100 men and women, including Johannes Kepler, Willebrord Snel, Willem Blaeu, several bishops and numerous technical specialists all of whom helped shape the culture of the Scientific Revolution. Under Tycho Brahe's leadership, their teamwork achieved breakthroughs in astronomy, scientific method, and research organization that were essential to the birth of modern science.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1124 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations
ISBN : UIUC:30112059887239

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Cumulative List of Organizations Described in Section 170 (c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 by Anonim Pdf