Landscapes of privilege
Subtitle: aesthetics and affluence in an American suburb
By: James S. Duncan and Nancy G. Duncan.
Contributors: Duncan, Nancy, 1948-
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9780415946872; 9780415946889
Subjects: Landscape architecture -- New York (State) -- Bedford (Westchester County); Landscape assessment -- New York (State) -- Bedford (Westchester County); Landscape protection -- New York (State) -- Bedford (Westchester County); City planning -- New York (State) -- Bedford (Westchester County)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-258) and index.
Table of contents: title: Bedford in context; title: The narrative structures : the cultural codes of a landscape aesthetic; title: Anxious pleasures : place-based identity and the look of the land; title: Legislating beauty : the politics of exclusion; title: The taxman cometh : the gift of nature in suburbia; title: Fabricating history : the production of heritage in Bedford Village; title: Another country : Latino labor and the politics of disappearance.