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 re