A Sense of Place, a Sense of Time

by John Brinckerhoff Jackson

• ISBN13: 9780300063974
• ISBN10: 0300063970
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 1996-02-21
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

J.B. Jackson, a pioneer in the field of landscape studies, here takes us on a tour of American landscapes past and present, showing how our surroundings reflect important changes in our culture. Arguing that our urban environment makes us increasingly concerned with time and movement rather than place and permanence, Jackson examines the new vernacular landscape of trailers, parking lots, roads, and shopping malls and traces the development of dwellings in New Mexico from prehistoric Pueblo villages to mobile homes.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
The Accessible Landscape	1	(12)
SOUTHWEST
Seeing New Mexico	13	(14)
Pueblo Dwellings and Our Own	27	(12)
Church or Plaza?	39	(12)
The Mobile Home on the Range	51	(20)
ENVIRONMENTS
Beyond Wilderness	71	(22)
In Favor of Trees	93	(12)
The Past and Future Park	105	(14)
Vernacular Gardens	119	(16)
Working at Home	135	(14)
TOWNS, CARS, AND ROADS
A Sense of Place, a Sense of Time	149	(16)
Looking into Automobiles	165	(6)
Truck City	171	(16)
Roads Belong in the Landscape	187	(19)
Notes	206	(4)
Index	210