Cultured Travel Guide Books - The Necessity for Ruins, and Other Topics |
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 333
EAN: 9780870232923
ISBN: 0870232924
Label: University of Massachusetts Press
Manufacturer: University of Massachusetts Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 136
Publication Date: 1980-05
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Studio: University of Massachusetts Press |
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Comment: the book arrived quiclky and I'm happy with it nevertheless it as some underlined sentences (used books are usually like this) but it's quite ok.
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Summary: Reflections on THE NECESSITY FOR RUINS
Comment: J. B. Jackson, the founder and longtime editor of the journal LANDSCAPE, helped readers appreciate, and understand, the modern American landscape--parks and cemeteries, to be sure, but also commercial strips and house types, roads and streetscapes--in all of its marvelous complexity. This short volume contains a number of Jackson's vintage essays. The first and last chapters explain the author's approach to the landscape. Other essays include discussions of gardens and sacred groves, the domestication of the garage, and keys to reading streetscapes. The title essay, "The Necessity for Ruins," begins as a reverie on the importance of public monuments before wryly concluding that history has fallen victim to preservation and the heritage industry. These engagingly written essays are the product of an enquiring mind determined to find meaning in our everyday surroundings..
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Jackson discussed the evolution of the development, use, and perception of landscape--the space around us in the most general sense. The title chapter examines the proliferation of historic parks and monuments and argues that American culture demands a three-step formulation of history.
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