Landscape in Sight: Looking at America

Yale University Press

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UPC:
9780300080742
Maximum Purchase:
3 units
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
2000-03-11
Author:
John Brinckerhoff Jackson
Language:
english
Edition:
Revised
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Focusing not on nature but on landscapeland shaped by human presenceJackson invites us to see the everyday places of the American countryside and city. This appealing anthology, illustrated with Jacksons 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.

Jackson remains a model for civil discussion of architecture and the landscape. Michael Leccese, Architecture

[This book] contains several wonderful essays in what is best described as domestic anthropology, including a paean to mobile homes and an investigation of the humble garage. Vintage Jackson. Witold Rybczynski, Lingua Franca

A large and varied sampler of essays by the late doyen of American cultural geography. . . . Highly recommended for geographers and students of the American scene. Kirkus Reviews

Horowitz makes the reader appreciate once again the dignity and affection Jackson brought to garages, supermarkets, cemeteries, or the urban grid. Patricia Leigh Brown, New York Times