Focusing not on nature but on landscape -- land shaped by human presence -- Jackson invites us to see the everyday places of the American countryside and city. This appealing anthology, illustrated with Jackson's sketches and photographs, brings together his most famous essays, significant but less well known writings, articles originally published under pseudonyms, a bibliography of his landscape writings, and introductions that place his work in context.

J. B. Jackson and the Discovery of the American Landscape

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Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz

Editor's Note

xxxii

Editor's Acknowledgments

xxxiii

Places for Fun and Games

1

(18)

Part 1 Landscape Explorations

The Stranger's Path

19

(12)

The Almost Perfect Town

31

(12)

Chihuahua as We Might Have Been

43

(12)

Looking at New Mexico

55

(13)

The Accessible Landscape

68

(13)

Part 2 First Comes the House: The Evolving Domestic Landscape

The Westward-Moving House

81

(26)

Ghosts at the Door

107

(11)

The Domestication of the Garage

118

(11)

Part 3 The Unfolding American Past

The Virginia Heritage: Fencing, Farming, and Cattle Raising

129

(10)

The Nineteenth-Century Rural Landscape: The Courthouse, the Small College, the Mineral Springs, and the Country Store

139

(10)

Excerpt from American Space: The Centennial Years

149

(11)

High Plains

160

(3)

From Monument to Place

163

(12)

Jefferson, Thoreau, and After

175

(10)

Part 4 The Emerging American Present

Other-Directed Houses

185

(14)

The Abstract World of the Hot-Rodder

199

(11)

The Movable Dwelling and How It Came to America

210

(15)

An Engineered Environment

225

(12)

The Vernacular City

237

(12)

Roads Belong in the Landscape (abridged)

249

(6)

Truck City

255

(14)

Part 5 Taking on the Modern Movement

Editor's Introduction

269

(8)

Review of Built in U.S.A. (H. G. West)

277

(4)

Living Outdoors with Mrs. Panther (Ajax)

281

(4)

Hail and Farewell

285

(4)

Southeast to Turkey

289

(3)

From ``Whither Architecture? Some Outside Views''

292

(7)

Part 6 Thinking about Landscape

The Word Itself

299

(8)

By Way of Conclusion: How to Study the Landscape

307

(14)

Part 7 Landscape Revisions

The Tale of a House (Ajax)

321

(12)

Notes and Comments

333

(22)

Basic Principles

333

(6)

Human, All Too Human, Geography

333

(3)

A Statement of Policy

336

(3)

Man and Nature

339

(3)

Tenth-Anniversary Issue

339

(1)

Expulsion from the Garden

340

(1)

Once More: Man and Nature

341

(1)

The True Purpose of Landscapes

342

(5)

Goodbye to Evolution

342

(1)

The Building Watchers

343

(1)

Cities and People

344

(1)

The Non-environment

345

(2)

Pleasures and Displeasures

347

(8)

Brother Rat

347

(1)

Fun Planning

348

(2)

Leisure

350

(1)

The Lure of the West

350

(3)

Auto Territoriality

353

(2)

To Pity the Plumage and Forget the Dying Bird

355

(11)

``Sterile'' Restorations Cannot Replace a Sense of the Stream of Time

366

(5)

Permissions

371

(2)

Notes

373

(4)

Bibliography

377

(16)

Index

393

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