Designing the Earth: The Human Impulse to Shape Nature – David Bourdon Bestel Nu

Moving across space and time, from prehistory to the present and around the world, this fascinating volume explores the many ways in which the earth has been transformed by human effort. In discerning text, more than 150 fabulous photographs – many of them taken by some of the world’s premier aerial photographers – and 21 arresting drawings, paintings, and other artworks, Designing the Earth examines such diverse works as clay dwellings in Chad and Mali, adobe pueblos in the American Southwest, mud-brick zi…