This book comprises edited essays, notes and letters spanning thirty years -- many previously unpublished -- richly illustrated with documentary drawings and photographs. The theme of the collection, developed through the Smithsons' reactions to the work of Mies van der Rohe and Charles and Ray Eames, is the influence across generations of architects, transforming over time the way the 'art of inhabitation' is practiced. The influence of Mies on the Smithsons' work is widely recognised; perhaps more surprising is the profound and subtle influence of the Eames' work on the Brutalist Smithsons. The book presents a fascinatingly intimate account of the way Mies and the Eames revolutionised architecture and design, as felt by two articulate and thoughtful practitioners, rather than the views of cultural historians.

Contents: Introduction: Landscapes of Inhabitation on Mount Kilimanjaro (Timothy Clack); 1) A Global Adventure and Conservation Icon (Jeffrey Durrant); 2) Past in the Present: Tradition, Land and Customary Law on Kilimanjaro 1880-1980 (Sally Falk Moore); 3) People of the Banana Garden: Placing the Dead at the Ultimate Home in Kilimanjaro (Paivi Hasu); 4) Social and Cultural Dimensions of Irrigation Management in Kilimanjaro (Mattias Tagseth); 5) The History of Pre-colonial and Early Colonial Agriculture on Mount Kilimanjaro: A Review (Daryl Stump and Mattias Tagseth); 6) Becoming Chagga: Population and Politics around Kilimanjaro before 1886 (Festo Mkenda); 7) Politics, Cattle and Ivory: Regional Interaction and Changing Land-use Prior to Colonialism (Thomas Hakansson); 8) Continuity and Change in the Historical Landscape of Mount Kilimanjaro: The Rau Forest and Ashira Parish (Robert Munson); 9) Local Memories of Famines (Ludgar Wimmelbucker); 10) Infusing the Sacred: Syncretistic Landscapes, Ritual Performance and Religious Experience in Chaggaland (Timothy Clack); 11) The Impact of Population Pressure on Land Management in Kilimanjaro (Paul Maro); 12) Coffee and Dairying in Kilimanjaro: Historical Development, Income Diversification and Change in the Livelihood of the Chagga (Ntengua Mdoe); 13) Cultural responses to AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Diseases (Per Bergsjo); 14) Environment and Worldview: The Chagga Homegardens (Andreas Hemp, Claudia Hemp and J. Christoph Winter).

Webster's bibliographic and event-based timelines are comprehensive in scope, covering virtually all topics, geographic locations and people. They do so from a linguistic point of view, and in the case of this book, the focus is on "Inhabitation," including when used in literature (e.g. all authors that might have Inhabitation in their name). As such, this book represents the largest compilation of timeline events associated with Inhabitation when it is used in proper noun form. Webster's timelines cover bibliographic citations, patented inventions, as well as non-conventional and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities in usage. These furthermore cover all parts of speech (possessive, institutional usage, geographic usage) and contexts, including pop culture, the arts, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This "data dump" results in a comprehensive set of entries for a bibliographic and/or event-based timeline on the proper name Inhabitation, since editorial decisions to include or exclude events is purely a linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under "fair use" conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain.

xxii + 73 pp. with 51 figs. & 4 color plates, 4to.