1937 Coney Island Rehabilitation Submitted NEW YORK — The transformation of Coney Island from a "honkytonk" resort, where millions of New York natives and visitors amuse themselves and cool off on sweltering summer days into a second Jones Beach, orderly and landscaped, was foreseen today [Dec.
His orderly and airy landscapes in these palaces helped initiate that genre as a principal subject in Italian fresco painting.
Kenny — who doesn't consider herself a real photographer but clearly has a very particular eye — is drawn to stark landscapes and orderly arrangements: the straight lines of a road receding into the distance; a tree in perfect butterfly symmetry with its shadow; identical boxy houses sitting in neat rows.
Benjamin Butler's landscape images are more orderly in their pursuit of the visionary.
The country's island location has been of critical importance to the development of the English character, which fosters the seemingly contradictory qualities of candour and reserve along with conformity and eccentricity and which values social harmony and, as is true of many island countries, the good manners that ensure orderly relations in a densely populated landscape.
The density of street and place names in cities is testimony to the human desire for making landscapes legible, imageable, and orderly for easy navigation.
An hour's drive to the west of Abidjan, Ivory Coast's skyscraper-filled commercial capital, palm trees dominate the landscape; thousands upon thousands of them in neat orderly rows.
The end result was the orderly, small square fields that dominate the contemporary landscape.
The political landscape has certainly changed since then, with orderly by-elections being held on April 1 that were a triumph for the N.L.D. A release of some political prisoners and a series of reforms led by the new president, U Thein Sein, have encouraged Western countries to begin easing some of their sanctions against the government.
If this phenomenon is more general, it suggests that relatively abrupt landscape reorganizations may be more likely than more orderly successions of change along environmental gradients.
