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

John Brinckerhoff Jackson

Social Sciences

Yale University Press

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& Company, Inc.

Introduction to Drawing

Arts & Photography

John, Jackson

History & Criticism

Hackberry Press

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