Landscape in sight / John Brinckerhoff Jackson ; edited by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jackson, John Brinckerhoff, 1909-

Contributor:

Thông, Hùynh Sanh

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Landscape assessment--United States.

Landscape assessment.

Human geography--United States.

Human geography.

Architecture--United States.

Architecture.

Anthropology.

Social sciences.

Human ecology.

United States--Description and travel.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [1995]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Focusing not on nature but on landscape-land shaped by human presence-Jackson invites us to see the everyday places of the American countryside and city. This appealing anthology, illustrated with Jackson's sketches and photographs, brings together his most famous essays, significant but less well known writings, articles originally published under pseudonyms, a bibliography of his landscape writings, and introductions that place his work in context."Jackson remains a model for civil discussion of architecture and the landscape."-Michael Leccese, Architecture"[This book] contains several wonderful essays in what is best described as domestic anthropology, including a paean to mobile homes and an investigation of the humble garage. Vintage Jackson."-Witold Rybczynski, Lingua Franca"A large and varied sampler of essays by the late doyen of American cultural geography. . . . Highly recommended for geographers and students of the American scene."-Kirkus Reviews"Horowitz makes the reader appreciate once again the dignity and affection Jackson brought to garages, supermarkets, cemeteries, or the urban grid."-Patricia Leigh Brown, New York Times

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

J. B. Jackson and the Discovery of the American Landscape

Editor's Note

Editor's Acknowledgments

Places for Fun and Games

1. Landscape Explorations

2. First Comes the House: The Evolving Domestic Landscape

3. The Unfolding American Past

4. The Emerging American Present

5. Taking on the Modern Movement

6. Thinking about Landscape

7. Landscape Revisions

Notes and Comments

To Pity the Plumage and Forget the Dying Bird

"Sterile" Restorations Cannot Replace a Sense of the Stream of Time

Permissions

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

0-300-18564-2

OCLC:

1059274848