A pioneer in landscape studies takes us on a tour of landscapes past and present to show how our surroundings reflect our culture.“No one who cares deeply about landscape issues can overlook the scores of brilliant insights and challenges to the mind, eye and conscience contained in Discovering the Vernacular Landscape. It is a book to be deeply cherished and to be read and pondered many times.”―Wilbur Zelinsky, Landscape“While it is fashionable to speak of man as alienated from his environment, Mr. Jackson shows us all the ties that bind us to it, consciously or unconsciously. He teaches us to speak intelligently―rather than polemically or wistfully―of the sense of place.”―Anatole Broyard, New York Times“This book is a vital and seminal text: do beg, borrow or buy it.”―Robert Holden, Landscape Design (London)“Incisive and overpoweringly influential. It will probably tell you something about how you live that you’ve never thought about.”―Thomas Hine, The Philadelphia Inquirer“No one can come close to Jackson in his unique combination of historical scholarship and field experience, in his deep knowledge of European high culture as well as of American trailer parks, in his archivist’s nose for the unusual fact and his philosopher’s mind for the trenchant, surprising question.”―Yi-Fu Tuan

Discovering the Vernacular Landscape

Politics & Social Sciences

Jackson, John Brinckerhoff

Social Sciences

Yale University Press

J. B. Jackson, a pioneer in the field of landscape studies, here takes us on a tour of American landscapes past and present, showing how our surroundings reflect important changes in our culture. Arguing that our urban environment makes us increasingly concerned with time and movement rather than place and permanence, Jackson examines the new vernacular landscape of trailers, parking lots, roads, and shopping malls, and traces the development of dwellings in New Mexico from prehistoric pueblo villages to mobile homes.

A Sense of Place, a Sense of Time

Science & Math

J.B. Jackson, a pioneer in the field of landscape studies, here takes us on a tour of American landscapes past and present, showing how our surroundings reflect important changes in our culture. Because we live in urban and industrial environments that are constantly evolving, says Jackson, time and movement are increasingly important to us and place and permanence are less so. We no longer gain a feeling of community from where we live or where we assemble but from common work hours, habits, and customs. Jackson examines the new vernacular landscape of trailers, parking lots, trucks, loading docks, and suburban garages, which all reflect this emphasis on mobility and transience; he redefines roads as scenes of work and leisure and social intercourse―as places, rather than as means of getting to places; he argues that public parks are now primarily for children, older people, and nature lovers, while more mobile or gregarious people seek recreation in shopping malls, in the street, and in sports arenas; he traces the development of dwellings in New Mexico from prehistoric Pueblo villages to mobile homes; and he criticizes the tendency of some environmentalists to venerate nature instead of interacting with it and learning to share it with others in temporary ways. Written with his customary lucidity and elegance, this book reveals Jackson's passion for vernacular culture, his insights into a style of life that blurs the boundaries between work and leisure, between middle and working classes, and between public and private spaces.

Focusing not on nature but on landscape-land shaped by human presence-Jackson insists in his writings that the workaday world gives form to the essential American landscape. This appealing anthology, illustrated with his own sketches and photographs, brings together Jackson`s most famous essays, significant but less well known writings, and articles that were originally published unsigned or under various pseudonyms.

Landscape in Sight: Looking at America

Arts & Photography

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

American Space chronicles "the development of the rural and urban landscape in various regions of the United States during the crucial decade following the Civil War". "The author is concerned not only with what were largely unplanned changes in the environment, such as the effects of the advent of wheat raising and railway transportation in the Northwest and the growth of steam-powered factory towns in much of New England, but also with the response of what he calls 'the reformers', the landscape architects and others who attempted to give amenity and shape to the landscape".

American Space: The Centennial Years, 1865-1876.

W.W.Norton

Joe Deal is the photographer who perhaps best exemplifies the important approach to photographing the man-altered landscape that became known as the "New Topographics" when an exhibit toured and a book of that name was published in 1975. Deal's style is cool and dispassionate, his impeccable prints at first glance understated. But his keen observation and sense of the ironies of the population and building explosion in the Los Angeles Basin make his photographs resonate with the tensions of the human relationship to the landscape that are nowhere more evident than in southern California.Ultimately, Joe Deal's photographs are more than a survey of the urban landscape and vernacular architecture in earthquake country. From the manicured lawns in what were once desert arroyos to cities built on the beach, the sociological implications are profound and never far from view to the careful observer of these photographs. The essays provide thoughtful commentary on the far-reaching questions Joe Deal raises. Presenting these numerous series of photographs together for the first time, this book is a major contribution to late twentieth-century photography.

Joe Deal: Southern California Photographs, 1976-86

Deal, Joe

Leffingwell, Edward

Johnstone, Mark

Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery

Univ of New Mexico Pr

Essays examine the way we perceive landscape, the effect of gardens and cities of the past on the landscapes of the present, and the way American architecture has broken with tradition

The Necessity for Ruins, and Other Topics

Nature & Ecology

Univ of Massachusetts Pr

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Discovering the Vernacular Landscape

A Sense of Place, a Sense of Time

A Sense of Place, a Sense of Time

Landscape in Sight: Looking at America

Landscape in Sight: Looking at America

American Space: The Centennial Years, 1865-1876.

Joe Deal: Southern California Photographs, 1976-86

The Necessity for Ruins, and Other Topics