Title & Author:

The Interpretation of ordinary landscapes : geographical essays / D.W. Meinig, editor ; J.B. Jackson [and others].

Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1979.

Description:

viii, 255 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Seven of the nine essays derive from a special series of lectures presented at Syracuse University.
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Fundamentals: Axioms for reading the landscape: some guides to the American scene / Peirce F. Lewis -- The beholding eye: ten versions of the same scene / D.W. Meing -- 2. Explorations: The biography of landscape: cause and culpability / Marwyn S. Samuels -- Thought and landscape: the eye and the mind's eye / Yi-Fu Tuan -- Age and artifact: dilemmas of appreciation / David Lowenthal -- The landscape of home: myth, experience, social meaning / David E. Sopher -- 3. American expressions: The order of a landscape: reason and religion in Newtonian America / J.B. Jackson -- Symbolic landscapes: models of American community / D.W. Meing -- 4. Teachers: Reading the landscape: an appreciation of W.G. Hoskins and J.B. Jackson / D.W. Meing.

Resources:
Inhaltsverzeichnis

ISBN:

0195025369 (paperback)
9780195025361 (paperback)

Subject:

Landscape assessment.
Paysages Évaluation.
Landschaft
Arquitetura Paisagistica.
Landscape assessment Addresses, essays, lectures

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Added entries:

Meinig, D. W. (Donald William), 1924-2020.
Jackson, John Brinckerhoff, 1909-1996.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 18932
Call No.: 8500; ID:87-B6190
Status: Available