Real Places An Unconventional Guide to America's Generic Landscape

Name: Real Places An Unconventional Guide to America's Generic Landscape
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ISBN: 9780226109466

ISBN-10: 0226109461

ISBN-13: 9780226109466

Edition: 1994

Authors: Grady Clay

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In Real Places, Grady Clay presents the American landscape in a completely fresh and untypical way. Rather than look at locations, he studies constructed, imaginative sites. Clay explores the fascination of "Fall Color Country," or "Lover's Lane." What draws people to these "generic" landscapes and keeps them coming back literally and figuratively time and time again? Real Places catalogs and describes a unique cross-section of America, emphasizing the beauty and intrigue of these hidden gems. Heavily illustrated with maps and photographs depicting the everyday as well as the bizarre, Clay's entertaining Baedeker allows us to see in a new way what has always been "right before our eyes." …

Book details

List price: $38.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 11/15/1994
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 322
Size: 0.87" wide x 0.94" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 2.376



List of Entries


Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Center: The Death and Life of Centrality



Back There



Patches



Perks



The Front: The Struggle for Control



Ephermera



Testing Grounds



Border Zones



Out There: Life in the Great Beyond-the-Bypass



Power Vacuum



Opportunity Sites



The Limits


Epilogue


Notes


Index