Mississippi Floods : Designing a Shifting Landscape

First printing of the influential landscape architecture book.

Five gatefolds and over 200 beautiful color and black & white drawings, diagrams, and collages. Dilip Da Cunha's innovative visual representation is on full display; efficiently conveying complex ideas of landscape alteration and scale.

Pages are clean and crisp. Former owner's name on front free endpaper corner. Corners of boards have light wear. Dust jacket has tiny scratch to front, as well as very minor shelf and edge wear. Very good book in very good jacket.

"Each time the waters of the mighty Mississippi River overflow their banks, questions arise anew about the battle between "man" and "river". How can we prevent floods and the damage they inflict while maintaining navigational potential and protecting the river's ecology?"

The design of the Mississippi and how it should proceed has long been a subject of controversy. What is missing from the discussion, say the authors of this book, is an understanding of the representations of the Mississippi River. Landscape architect Anuradha Mathur and architect/planner Dilip da Cunha draw together an array of perspectives on the river and show how these different images have played a role in the process of designing and containing the river landscape. Analyzing maps, hydrographs, working models, drawings, photographs, government and media reports, painting, and even folklore, Mathur and da Cunha consider what these representations of the river portray, what they leave out, and why that might be. With original silk screen prints and a selection of maps, the book joins historic, scientific, engineering, and natural views of the river to create an entirely new portrait of the great Mississippi." - from the dust jacket flap

9.25 x 10.75 inches