Title: Understanding ordinary landscapes /
Authors: Groth, Paul Erling.; Bressi, Todd W.
Publisher: Yale University Press,
Year: 1997
Subjects: Landscape assessment.; Human geography
Abstract: "Whereas traditional studies in this field have been of rural life, most of the authors in this collection take on urban subjects, and with them the challenging issues of power, class, race, ethnicity, subculture, and cultural opposition. J.B. Jackson, the field's foremost proponent and practitioner, writes on the nature of the vernacular house and the garage. Other contributors include James Borchert on the social stratification of Cleveland suburbs, Rina Swentzell on Native American and U.S. government environments among the Santa Clara Pueblo in New Mexico, Reuben Rainey on the Gettysburg battlefield, Dolores Hayden on the potentials of urban landscape documentation, and Denis Cosgrove on spectacle and society. Still other authors - Wilbur Zelinsky, Richard Walker, Dell Upton, David Lowenthal, Jay Appleton, and Robert Riley - explore vision and space as sources of social interpretation. The book also includes a historical review of recent trends in the field of landscape studies and an annotated bibliography."--Jacket.
Contents: Frameworks for cultural landscape study / Paul Groth -- Visual landscapes of a streetcar suburb / James Borchert -- Landscape and archives as texts / Deryck W. Holdsworth -- Conflicting landscape values: the Santa Clara Pueblo and day school / Rina Swentzell -- Hallowed grounds and rituals of remembrance: Union regimental monuments at Gettysburg / Reuben M. Rainey -- The visual character of Chinatowns / David Chuenyan Lai -- Where the one-eyed man is king: the tyranny of visual and formalist values in evaluating landscapes / Catherine M. Howett -- Spectacle and society: landscape as theater in premodern and postmodern cities / Denis Cosgrove -- Urban landscape history: the sense of place and the politics of space / Dolores Hayden -- The politics of vision / Anthony D. King -- The future of the vernacular / John Brinckerhoff Jackson -- Seeing beyond the dominant culture / Wilbur Zelinsky -- Unseen and disbelieved: a political economist among cultural geographers / Richard Walker -- Seen, unseen, and scene / Dell Upton -- European landscape transformation: the rural residue / David Lowenthal -- The integrity of the landscape movement / Jay Appleton --The visible, the visual, and the vicarious: questions about vision, landscape, and experience / Robert B. Riley.