Main entry:

Duncan, James S.

Title & Author:

Landscapes of privilege : the politics of the aesthetic in an American suburb / James S. Duncan and Nancy G. Duncan.

Publication:

New York ; London : Routledge, 2004.

Description:

xiv, 261 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. Bedford in Context -- Ch. 3. The Narrative Structures: The Cultural Codes of a Landscape Aesthetic -- Ch. 4. Anxious Pleasures: Place-Based Identity and the Look of the Land -- Ch. 5. Legislating Beauty: The Politics of Exclusion -- Ch. 6. The Taxman Cometh: The Gift of Nature in Suburbia -- Ch. 7. Fabricating History: The Production of Heritage in Bedford Village -- Ch. 8. Another Country: Latino Labor and the Politics of Disappearance -- Ch. 9. Epilogue.

Summary:

Written by highly noted geographers from Cambridge University, this text focuses on a classic American suburb to show how the physical landscape functions as cultural code and marker of social exclusion.

Resources:
Access Table of contents.

ISBN:

0415946875 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
9780415946872 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
0415946883 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780415946889 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Landscape architecture New York (State) Bedford (Westchester County)
Landscape assessment New York (State) Bedford (Westchester County)
Landscape protection New York (State) Bedford (Westchester County)
City planning New York (State) Bedford (Westchester County)
Architecture du paysage New York (État) Bedford (Westchester)
Paysages Évaluation New York (État) Bedford (Westchester)
Paysages Protection New York (État) Bedford (Westchester)
City planning.
Landscape architecture.
Landscape assessment.
Landscape protection.
Landschapsarchitectuur.
Voorsteden.
Stadsplanning.
New York (State) Bedford (Westchester County)

Added entries:

Duncan, Nancy, 1948-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 230311
Call No.: SB470.54.N6 D86 2004
Status: Available