This book combines breathtaking aerial photographs and exquisite map-drawings of the American landscape with thoughtful essays that explore how various cultures have forged the landscapes in different regions of the country and what the possibilities are for future landscape design. The authors demonstrate that landscape representation is more than descriptive--it can also instruct and construct how people perceive, shape, and transform the land."An original and striking book that imaginatively and creatively melds word with image. It is intelligent, often profound, always shrewd."--John Dixon Hunt, University of Pennsylvania