Canyon Gardens

by Price, V. B.

• ISBN13: 9780826338594
• ISBN10: 0826338593
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-12-30
• Publisher: Univ of New Mexico Pr

Summary

Takes a new look at ancient and modern Puebloan gardening and landscape design approaches. Part One examines early Puebloan landscapes in detail, including compact gardens and terraces, site planning, the integration of farming and landscape design into settlement complexes, and the unit-courtyard complexes of the Mesa Verde country. It also covers the first meeting of the Ancient Puebloan tradition with Spanish traditions in seventeenth-century New Mexico and the Puebloan uses of plants. New field research is included -- recent findings about the Zuni area, the upper Rio Grande country, and the Tompiro and Tiwa canyons and valleys in the Manzano Range. Part Two looks at the Ancient Puebloan culture's influence today. Chapters here examine the uses of the historic landscape in today's agriculture and horticulture and the impact of governmental regulations on traditional habits of gardening and land use and perception. Modern architects, site planners, and landscape architects will find these new-found qualities of the Southwestern landscape fascinating and inspirational.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Prologue	p. xv
Landscape and Garden in the Land of the Ancestral Puebloans
Europe, the New World, and Buildings Without History	p. 1
The Berry Gardens of Quarai and the Pocket Terraces of Abo	p. 17
Reading the Ancestral Puebloan Landscape: A Paleoethnobotanist's Text of Seeds and Wood	p. 45
A Durable Legacy: Construction and Spatial Analysis at Sand Canyon Pueblo in the Mesa Verde Country	p. 45
Tewa Fields, Tewa Traditions	p. 57
The Estancia: The New Mexican Hacienda	p. 75
The Influence of the Ancestral Puebloan Landscape in Our Own Time
Zuni Maize	p. 87
The Narrative Construction of Landscape: Hopi, 1879-94	p. 113
Conflicting Landscape Values: The Santa Clara Pueblo and Day School	p. 125
Mary Jane Colter and the Ancestral Puebloan Tradition	p. 133
AMREP and the Pueblos: River's Edge and La Luz	p. 145
Landscape and Survival: Thoughts on New Urbanism and Ancestral Puebloan/Pueblo Strategies for Designing Pragmatic Desert Built Environments	p. 169
The Chaco Ancestral Puebloans: Lessons Learned	p. 189
Epilogue	p. 205
Contributors	p. 209
Index	p. 211
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