And the 18th-century churches of Ouro Preto are spectacular, both in the eye-widening ostentation of the Baroque interiors and the way their spires punctuate the sloping landscape.
In front of a small stretched patch of yellowish fabric with a faint, blooming stain at its center, which Mr. Jensen seems to present as is, I found myself thinking of the barren, sloping landscape depicted in Goya's painting of a dog, and of the light-struck suns and moons of the American Modernist Arthur Dove.
It stands next to another river, the Ouseburn, just before it winds its way into the Tyne, on a site which, as in much of Newcastle, gains drama from both a sloping landscape and engineering, in this case a railway viaduct and a sluice gate.
One three-bedroom, three-fireplace home with hand-hewn wood beams and fieldstone floors, available for $425,000, embraces the sloping landscape -- an 18-foot boulder serves as both the far wall of the living room and the floor of a second-level patio.
Among the park's signature pieces are Louise Nevelson's "City on the High Mountain" (1983), a jumble of geometric shapes painted black; one of Alexander Calder's last monumental stabiles, "The Arch" (1975); an untitled work by Robert Grosvenor (1969), a site-specific structure mimicking the sloping landscape; and several monumental steel I-beam sculptures by Mark di Suvero.
Farther along, through tall, boxy yew hedges with tops trimmed to mimic the sloping landscape's tree line, the garden opens into Mr. Oudolf's "perennial meadow" — three circular beds, roughly 26, 39 and 46 feet in diameter, each with a different mixture of perennial plants and ornamental grasses.
Luvisols form on flat or gently sloping landscapes under climatic regimes that range from cool temperate to warm Mediterranean.
For example, Rebuild's most expensive project, the Big U, a 10-mile protective system of sloping landscapes along lower Manhattan's waterfront, has a fixed height.
Experimental evidence has shown that soil layering can significantly alter water movement through soil profiles, especially in sloping landscapes.
In sloping landscapes (>2%), this model provides practitioners an easy-to-use VTA design and/or risk assessment tool that is more hydrological process-based than current methods.
Recently, the problem in the study area is clearly observed as much of the extensively grazing lands on the sloping landscapes and flat bare lands were abandoned and are highly degraded.
