Author: Lewis Mumford

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-11-08

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9780260608918

Excerpt from Regional Planning in the Pacific Northwest: A Memorandum The two weeks tour that I made of the coastal portions of the Northwest had the advantage, just because my movements were so rapid, of leaving two distinct images of the landscape. One was of its over powering beauty; the other was of its loneliness. At every point in my journey, from.the mckonz1e River to Puget Sound, there were breath taking landscapes: new the great simplicity of the towering Douglas firs, repeated mile aftw mile, new the genial farmeand-orchard land scape of the Willamette valley, or Hg ain the srbtle and manifold beau ties of the Columbia River Gorge, which unrolls itself like some great kakemono of classic Chinese landscape art. But at the same time one had a sense of unoccupied space: though one was on an automobile read, one wouldn't have been surprised to see a covered wagon with a weatherbeaten pioneer family stalking alongside, cross the highway. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.