Willamette Valley Landscape Environment
This is the outline of a class lecture that I gave to an Environmental Studies group at the University of Oregon in October, 1986. Later I used the same organization to a paper on the Central Valley of California. The Outline The body of the talk
Perspectives on the Great Valley of California
CHANGING ENVIRONMENTS, LANDSCAPES, CONTROLS Alvin W. Urquhart–University of Oregon PERSPECTIVES OF THE LAND I want to look at the land that is the Great Central Valley from three perspectives–environment, landscape and control. By environment I mean here “the physical and cultural surroundings of the valley’s inhabitants.” The scale of the environment of the valley’s people […]
Stripping the Urban Landscape of West 11th Ave., Eugene. 1980
Oaxacan Walls
In addition to beautiful windows and doors, the diverse characters of its walls are extraordinary. I include only a few of the various walls that grace the city.
Oaxacan Windows and Doors
The old colonial center of Oaxaca is a marvelous collection of buildings and activities. Many of the walls and windows within the central city are beautiful. I include here several examples of windows and doors.
Stripping the Urban Landscape: Eugene and Reno, 2018
In 1980 I presented the APCG Presidential address in Reno. It was entitled “Stripping the Urban Landscape.” I reviewed the changes of West 11th Ave. Eugene, Oregon from 1892 to1979 In 1979, I had asked the question–“What does this urban landscape represent?.” Like many commercial strips, West 11th communicated a strictly automobile oriented part of […]
A Visit to Queretaro, Mexico
Sierra Gorda Biosphere, Junipero Serra’s Missions, Surrealist Garden of Edward James
Adventures in Angola
Adventures in Angola Recently I have been digitizing 35mm slides from my field work in Portuguese Angola in 1958-59. I ran across a slide that I thought might interest plant lovers at Cascade Manor. The first picture is of Welwitschia mirabilis. It is the single existing species in a single family of the five families […]