A sense of place, a sense of time / John Brinckerhoff Jackson.

Main entry:

Jackson, John Brinckerhoff, 1909-1996, author.

Title & Author:

A sense of place, a sense of time / John Brinckerhoff Jackson.

Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [1994]
©1994

Description:

ix, 212 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-209) and index.
Accessible landscape -- Seeing New Mexico -- Pueblo dwellings and our own -- Church or Plaza? -- The mobile home on the range -- Beyond Wilderness -- In favor of trees -- The past and future park -- Vernacular gardens -- Working at home -- A sense of place, a sense of time -- Looking into automobiles -- Truck city -- Roads belong in the landscape.

Summary:

J.B. Jackson, a pioneer in the field of landscape studies, here takes us on a tour of American landscapes past and present, showing how our surroundings reflect important changes in our culture. Because we live in urban and industrial environments that are constantly evolving, says Jackson, time and movement are increasingly important to us, place and permanence less so. We no longer gain a feeling of community from where we live or assemble but from common work hours, habits, and customs. Jackson examines the new vernacular landscape of trailers, parking lots, trucks, loading docks, and suburban garages, which all reflect this emphasis of motility and transience; he redefines roads as scenes of work and leisure and social intercourse - as places rather than as means of getting to places; he argues that pubic parks are now primarily for children, older people, and nature lovers, while more mobile or gregarious people seek recreation in shopping malls, in the street, and in sports arenas; he discusses the form and function of dwellings in New Mexico, from prehistoric Pueblo villages to mobile homes; and he criticizes the tendency of some environmentalists to venerate nature instead of interacting with it and learning to share it with others. Written with Jackson's customary lucidity and elegance, this book reveals his passion for vernacular culture, his insights into a style of life that blurs the boundaries between work and leisure, between middle and working classes, and between public and private spaces.

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ISBN:

0300060025
9780300060027
0300063970 (pbk.)
9780300063974 (pbk.)
(pbk.)
0300032970

Subject:

Landscapes New Mexico.
Paysages Nouveau-Mexique.
Landscapes
Manners and customs
Travel
Landschaftsanalyse
Stadscultuur.
Stedelijke omgeving.
Landscape New Mexico.
New Mexico Description and travel.
New Mexico Social life and customs.
Nouveau-Mexique Descriptions et voyages.
Nouveau-Mexique Mœurs et coutumes.
New Mexico

Holdings:

Location: Library main 102860
Call No.: ID F796.J27; ID:94-B1666
Status: Available

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