Groth, P. & T.W. Bressi., 1997, Understanding ordinary landscapes, Yale University Press, New Haven
- Author : Groth, P. & T.W. Bressi.
- Year : 1997
- Title English : Understanding ordinary landscapes
- Publisher : Yale University Press
- Publisher's Location : New Haven
- ISBN : 0-300-07203-1
- Pages : 280
- Edition : Paperback
- Abstract : See: http://www.jstor.org/pss/2564244
- Comments : KEYWORDS: cultural landscape interpretation, cultural landscape studies, urban landscape history, lakefront estates, cultural landscape study, regimental monuments, memorial landscape, landscape scholars, pueblo plaza, new cultural geography, vernacular landscape, landscape writers, architectural roots, ordinary landscapes, landscape experience, territorial histories, ethnic landscapes, metropolitan corridor, humanistic geography, landscape movement, cultural geographers, landscape analysis, landscape tradition
- Outline : Book Description While 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. There is a chapter by J.B. Jackson, the field`s foremost proponent and exemplar, on the nature of the vernacular house and the garage. Some of the other contributors include James Borchert on the social stratification of Cleveland suburbs; Rina Swentzell on a comparison of native and federal environments on the Santa Clara Pueblo in New Mexico; Reuben Rainey on the Gettysburg battlefield; Dolores Hayden on the potentials of ethnic landscape documentation; and Denis Cosgrove on spectacle and society. Still other authorsWilbur Zelinsky, Richard Walker, Dell Upton, David Lowenthal, Jay Appleton, and Robert Riley-explore the problems and potentials of 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.