Michigan Family Farms and Farm Buildings: Landscapes of the Heart and Mind
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Michigan Family Farms and Farm Buildings: Landscapes of the Heart and Mind
Michigan Family Farms and Farm Buildings: Landscapes of the Heart and Mind

Michigan Family Farms and Farm Buildings: Landscapes of the Heart and Mind

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This title offers a window into the roles and construction of Michigan family farms. Michigan's family farms form the backbone of the state. One need only see the Centennial Farm signs that dot the sides of the state's country roads to understand that. Hemalata Dandekar shows in her new book just how connected those family farm buildings are to the families that inhabit them. Eight family-farm case studies display farm buildings' relationship to the land they sit on, their function on the farm, the materials they're made with, the farm enterprises themselves, and the families who own them. Photographs, plans, elevations, and sections of typical, exemplary traditional farm buildings show the aesthetic and architectural qualities of those types of buildings across the state. The ways in which the buildings serve the productive activities of the farm, shelter and nourish the people and livestock, yield a living, and enable the aspirations of farm people are shown in the words and photographs of the farmers themselves. The buildings form a window into the lives of Michigan's family farms and into the hearts and minds of the people who have lived and worked in them their entire lives. 40 photos, 20 line drawings
Hemalata C. Dandekar is head of City and Regional Planning at California Polytechnic State University. She specializes in urbanization, urban-rural linkages, rural development, and gender and housing. She developed her love of Michigan farmers and farm architecture during her years as a student, professor, and then director at the Urban Planning program of the A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan.
  • Imprint: The University of Michigan Press
  • ISBN13: 9780472051052
  • Packaged Weight: 698
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: The University of Michigan Press
  • Release Date: 2010-08-30
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: Hemalata C. Dandekar is head of City and Regional Planning at California Polytechnic State University. She specializes in urbanization, urban-rural linkages, rural development, and gender and housing. She developed her love of Michigan farmers and farm architecture during her years as a student, professor, and then director at the Urban Planning program of the A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan.

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