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Understanding ordinary landscapes /

"Whereas traditional studies in this field have been of rural life, most of the authors in this collection take on urban subjects, and with them the challenging issues of power, class, race, ethnicity, subculture, and cultural opposition. J.B. Jackson, the field's foremost proponent and pr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Groth, Paul Erling, Bressi, Todd W.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, [1997]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frameworks for cultural landscape study / Paul Groth
  • Visual landscapes of a streetcar suburb / James Borchert
  • Landscape and archives as texts / Deryck W. Holdsworth
  • Conflicting landscape values: the Santa Clara Pueblo and day school / Rina Swentzell
  • Hallowed grounds and rituals of remembrance: Union regimental monuments at Gettysburg / Reuben M. Rainey
  • The visual character of Chinatowns / David Chuenyan Lai
  • Where the one-eyed man is king: the tyranny of visual and formalist values in evaluating landscapes / Catherine M. Howett
  • Spectacle and society: landscape as theater in premodern and postmodern cities / Denis Cosgrove
  • Urban landscape history: the sense of place and the politics of space / Dolores Hayden
  • The politics of vision / Anthony D. King
  • The future of the vernacular / John Brinckerhoff Jackson
  • Seeing beyond the dominant culture / Wilbur Zelinsky
  • Unseen and disbelieved: a political economist among cultural geographers / Richard Walker
  • Seen, unseen, and scene / Dell Upton
  • European landscape transformation: the rural residue / David Lowenthal
  • The integrity of the landscape movement / Jay Appleton
  • The visible, the visual, and the vicarious: questions about vision, landscape, and experience / Robert B. Riley.