Landscape and images /
"Landscape and Images records a lifetime spent observing America's constructed landscapes. John Stilgoe's essays follow the eclectic trains of thought that have resulted from his observation, from the postcard preference for sunsets over sunrises to the concept of "teen geography...
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2005.
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Table of Contents:
- Treasured wastes : spaces and memories
- Landschaft and linearity : two archetypes of landscape
- Jack-o'-lanterns to surveyors : the secularization of landscape boundaries
- Archipelago landscape
- Walking seer : Cole as pedestrian spectator
- Smiling scenes
- Fair fields and blasted rock : American land classification systems and landscape aesthetics
- The magic of Pennsylvania travel narratives
- Mapping Indiana : nineteenth-century school book views
- Narragansett Bay : a particular landscape
- Deep cold : winter as landscape
- Skewing private climate
- Camouflaged and saving energy
- Hobgoblin in suburbia : origins of contemporary place consciousness
- Landscape jellies, landscape jams.
