Title: Landscape in sight : looking at America /
Authors: Jackson, John Brinckerhoff, 1909-; Horowitz, Helen Lefkowitz.
Publisher: Yale University Press,
Year: 1997
Subjects: Landscape assessment United States.; Human geography United States; Architecture United States; United States Description and travel.
Abstract: "During a long and distinguished career, John Brinckerhoff Jackson (1909-1996) brought about a new understanding and appreciation of the American landscape. Jackson founded Landscape Magazine in 1951, taught at Harvard University and the University of California at Berkeley, and wrote nearly two hundred essays and reviews. This appealing anthology of his most important writings on the American landscape, 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. Jackson also completed a new essay for this volume, "Places for Fun and Games," a few months before his death."--Jacket.
Contents: J.B. Jackson and the Discovery of the American Landscape / Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz -- The Stranger's Path -- The Almost Perfect Town -- Chihuahua as We Might Have Been -- Looking at New Mexico -- The Accessible Landscape -- The Westward-Moving House -- Ghosts at the Door -- The Domestication of the Garage -- The Virginia Heritage: Fencing, Farming, and Cattle Raising -- The Nineteenth-Century Rural Landscape: The Courthouse, the Small College, the Mineral Springs, and the Country Store -- Excerpt from American Space: The Centennial Years -- High Plains -- From Monument to Place -- Jefferson, Thoreau, and After -- Other-Directed Houses -- The Abstract World of the Hot-Rodder -- The Movable Dwelling and How It Came to America -- An Engineered Environment -- The Vernacular City -- Roads Belong in the Landscape (abridged) -- Truck City -- Review of Built in U.S.A. (H.G. West) -- Living Outdoors with Mrs. Panther (Ajax) -- Hail and Farewell -- Southeast to Turkey -- From "Whither Architecture? Some Outside Views" -- The Word Itself -- By Way of Conclusion: How to Study the Landscape -- The Tale of a House (Ajax) -- Notes and Comments -- To Pity the Plumage and Forget the Dying Bird -- "Sterile" Restorations Cannot Replace a Sense of the Stream of Time.