Landscape in Sight: Looking at America
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Author: Jackson, John Brinckerhoff (1909-1996)
Editor: Horowitz, Helen Lefkowitz
Publisher: Yale University Press
Pub Date: 1997
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Fair. Binding tight. No marks, tears. Some edge and corner wear.
Notes: Jackson founded and edited the magazine Landscape from 1951 to 1968, a publication which was influential in the rise of “vernacular landscape”, in the words of the New York Times, “the geography of everyday places and plain-folks architecture.” This volume is a collection of some of Jackson’s essays, published posthumously, on subjects ranging from “The Stranger’s Path” (think of where transients tend to congregate), “The Domestication of the Garage”, “The Abstract World of the Hot-Rodder”, “Truck City”, and “Fun Planning”. He established the J.B. Jackson Prize “to encourage and reward American geographers who write books about the United States which convey the insights of professional geography in language that is interesting and attractive to a lay audience.” (https://www.aag.org/award-grant/jackson_prize/ ) He was, like Buckminster Fuller, more influential than we realize. My Best Book of the Year in 2004.
