Title & Author:

Everyday America : cultural landscape studies after J.B. Jackson / edited by Chris Wilson and Paul Groth.

Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2003.

Description:

x, 385 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The polyphony of cultural landscape study : an introduction / Paul Groth, Chris Wilson -- J.B. Jackson and the play of the mind : inquiry and assertion as contact sports / Patricia Nelson Limerick -- J.B. Jackson as a critic of modern architecture / Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz -- Learning from Brinck / Denise Scott Brown -- Looking down the road : J.B. Jackson and the American highway landscape / Timothy Davis -- The monument and the bungalow: the intellectual legacy of J.B. Jackson / Peirce Lewis -- Crossing the American grain with Vesalius, Geddes, and Jackson : the cross section as a learning tool / Grady Clay -- Basic "Brincksmanship" : impressions left in a youthful mind / Jeffrey W. Limerick -- Observations of faith: landscape context in design education / Tracy Walker Moir-McClean -- On modern vernaculars and J.B. Jackson / Gwendolyn Wright -- What (else) we talk about when we talk about landscape : for a return to the social imagination / George L. Henderson -- Normative dimensions of landscape / Richard H. Schein -- Private property and the ecological commons in the American West / Mark Fiege -- Gender, imagination, and experience in the early-twentieth-century American downtown / Jessica Sewell -- Campus, estate, and park: lawn culture comes to the corporation / Louise A. Mozingo -- The enacted environment : examining the streets and yards of East Los Angeles / James Rojas -- Medicine in the (mini) mall: an American health care landscape / David C. Sloane.
English.

Summary:

As old as a roadway that was once a Native trail, as new as the suburban subdivisions spreading across the American countryside, the cultural landscape is endlessly changing. The study of cultural landscapes--a far more recent development--has also undergone great changes, ever broadening, deepening, and refining our understanding of the intricate webs of social and ecological spaces that help to define human groups and their activities. Everyday America surveys the widening conceptions and applications of cultural landscape writing in the United States and, in doing so, offers a clear and compelling view of the state of cultural landscape studies today. These essays--by distinguished journalists, historians, cultural geographers, architects, landscape architects, and planners--constitute a critical evaluation of the field's theoretical assumptions, and of the work of John Brinckerhoff Jackson, the pivotal figure in the emergence of cultural landscape studies. At the same time, they present exemplary studies of twentieth-century landscapes, from the turn-of-the-century American downtown to the corporate campus and the mini-mall. Assessing the field's accomplishments and shortcomings, offering insights into teaching the subject, and charting new directions for its future development, Everyday America is an eloquent statement of the meaning, value, and potential of the close study of human environments as they embody, reflect, and reveal American culture.

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ISBN:

0520229606 (alk. paper)
9780520229600 (alk. paper)
0520229614 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780520229617 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Jackson, John Brinckerhoff, 1909-1996.
Jackson, John Brinckerhoff, 1909-.
Landscape assessment United States.
Cities and towns United States.
Human geography United States.
Cultural geography United States.
Paysages Évaluation États-Unis.
Villes États-Unis.
Géographie culturelle États-Unis.
Cultural geography
Cities and towns
Human geography
Landscape assessment
United States
cultureel milieu
cultural environment
culturele differentiatie
cultural differentiation
geografie
geography
vs
usa
cultuurlandschap
cultural landscape
Geography of North America
Geografie van Noord-Amerika
Landscape (environment) assessing United States 1950-2010.
Cities United States 1950-2010.
Towns United States 1950-2010.
Human geography United States 1950-2010.

Added entries:

Wilson, Chris, 1951 December 23-
Groth, Paul Erling.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 227477
Call No.: GF91.U6 E94 2003
Status: Available