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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Portsmouth is an independent city located in the Hampton Roads metropolitan areas of the U.S. Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 100,565, but a 2006 Census estimate showed the city's population had increased to 101,377.The Norfolk Naval Shipyard, often called the Norfolk Navy Yard, is a historic and active U.S. Navy facility which is actually located in Portsmouth, despite its name. The shipyard builds, remodels, and repairs the Navy's ships of all types.Directly opposite Norfolk, the city of Portsmouth also has miles of waterfront land on the Elizabeth River as part of the harbor of Hampton Roads. ... Read more

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The Appalachian mountain chain once contained the highest and most dramatic mountains on earth. Worn down over time, these mountains still hold some of the most diverse climactic zones and singular geological formations in existence. In East 40 Degrees: An Interpretive Atlas, Jack Williams examines a succession of beautiful but little-known towns along this cordillera (a term descended from the Latin chorda, meaning "braided rope"), revealing in their layers of history and geography how both their diverse cultural and social circumstances and their geological history were instrumental in forming each town's distinctive character.

Referring to the spatial orientation of the Appalachian mountain chain, the "east 40 degrees" of the title runs from Alabama through fifteen states to the coast of Maine. Each town Williams examines sits within the folds of these mountains or beside a river nourished in their moist uplands. Beginning his record with the continental collisions that shaped each town's history more than 300 million years ago, Williams allows us to "see the tenuous web of connections between ourselves and the natural processes that shape this earth." Featuring a wealth of beautiful and significant illustrations and maps, this unique work brings into focus the critical issues of environmental and cultural sustainability confronting us today. Elegant, poetic, and erudite, East 40 Degrees will appeal to architects and landscape architects, planners, environmental historians, ecologists, geographers, and anyone interested in the history and origins of our modern landscapes and towns. ... Read more

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Enthralling geography
Never thought I'd be entralled reading a geography book, but this one did it.The clarity and grace of the writing, the beauty of the maps and photographs, and the fact that I grew up in the Piedmont region of the eastern seaboard all added to my pleasure.Lucky I found it; it's a book outside my general search for reading material.

40 Graus Este - Atlas Interpretativo
Um atlas com gráficos excelentes a diversas escalas e texturas, um texto com uma linguagem clara e apaixonante.

Ralph L. Atkins III
Jack Williams' "East40 degrees: An Interpretive Atlas" is a stunning account, that showcases the multiple, but unique landscapes that make up our vast country. The interaction between Alabama's courthouse square towns and the Applachian Mountains trails that lead them to Northern Maine were beautifully illustrated in such a "Mcharg" way that I found them enchanting and quite beautifully laid out.

ExcellentRead!!
East 40 Degrees is a beautifully written and exquisitely illustrated book on American landscapes.

El Paisaje Explorado
Jack Williams examina minuciosamente las capas naturales y culturales de una selección de pequeños poblados afectados por el olvido y el tiempo. Una grande e inspiradora lección que contribuye notoriamente a volver la vista a los orígenes y dejar por un momento de lado la frivolidad que por momentos pareciera prevalecer en la disciplina del paisaje y su arquitectura. ... Read more

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The second edition of Peirce Lewis' classic book on the legendary city, its social and natural geography. ... Read more

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Questions
Reading that Starr fellows review raised some questions for me about this book.Does this book really suggest that New Orleans is an expression of baby boomer identity or "distemper"?My God, a city an expression of a recent generation?This is absurd. Let me guess, Starr is a boomer who is in love with himself. Gives me second thoughts about buying the book.

New Orleans- The Making of An Urban Landscape
If only there was a book like this written for every major city.This book covers all of the contexts of the city; geological, topographical, sociological, and economical.It is wonderful to know how this precious city developed and struggled since its birth.Pierce Lewis writes wih a sense of humor that makes this read easy and enjoyable.

New Orleans-Making An Urban Landscape
New Orleans is an "inevitable city on an impossible
site" is what Pierce Lewis said in his book Making Of An Urban Landscape.

I would add to that "an inevitable party on an impossible site by illicite and illogical people.'

Most of what is there now was not there prior to WWII. The early settlers (1699) understood the land and built appropriately.

If anyone is to blame it is the French! But it is a most wonderful book about the growth and development of a wonderful city.

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