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Robert M. Newcomb.
Planning the Past: Historical Landscape Resources and Recreation.
Folkestone: Wm. Published Dawson/Hamden, Ct: Archon Books, 1979.
Series: Studies in Historical Geography.
ISBN 0712908161 (Dawson)/0208017283 (Archon).
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printer: W. & J. Mackay Ltd.
Size: 139x227x22mm.
Page count: 255pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: this copy has no dustjacket; some mild wear on the edges and corners; text appears to be free of marking.

This item £7.50
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Weight without packaging: 412g.

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Wide ranging both chronologically and geographically, but includes medieval examples along the way.

Contents: The visible past; Present recreational use of the past; The inventory & resource assessment; Law & the visible past; New trends in recreational uses of the past; Landscape history relics of the rural scene; Historical remains within the urban context; Old landscapes bearing the imprints of industry; — of the state; Landscape analysis — a new tomorrow for the visible past.

Notes: at end of book
Tables: 18
Illustrations: 38, monochrome; illustrated endpapers
Maps & plans: 2
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 4pp
Index: yes

See also | Landscape | Museum studies |
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