Understanding Ordinary Landscapes

Name: Understanding Ordinary Landscapes
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ISBN: 9780300072037

ISBN-10: 0300072031

ISBN-13: 9780300072037

Edition: 1998

Authors: Paul Groth, Todd W. Bressi

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This compilation of essays takes on the urban environment, with a few exceptions, to explore aspects of the emerging field of cultural landscape studies, demonstrating the value of investigating the many meanings of ordinary settings.

Book details

List price: $29.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 11/13/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 284
Size: 0.65" wide x 0.91" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Preface



Frameworks for Cultural Landscape Study




Visual Landscapes of a Streetcar Suburb




Landscape and Archives as Texts




Conflicting Landscape Values: The Santa Clara Pueblo and Day School




Hallowed Grounds and Rituals of Remembrance: Union Regimental Monuments at Gettysburg




The Visual Character of Chinatowns




Where the One-Eyed Man Is King: The Tyranny of Visual and Formalist Values in Evaluating Landscapes




Spectacle and Society: Landscape as Theater in Premodern and Postmodern Cities




Urban Landscape History: The Sense of Place and the Politics of Space




The Politics of Vision




The Future of the Vernacular




Seeing Beyond the Dominant Culture




Unseen and Disbelieved: A Political Economist among Cultural Geographers




Seen, Unseen, and Scene




European Landscape Transformations: The Rural Residue




The Integrity of the Landscape Movement




The Visible, the Visual, and the Vicarious: Questions about Vision, Landscape, and Experience



Notes


Bibliography: Basic Works in Cultural Landscape Studies



Contributors


Index