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Landscapes: Selected Writings of J.B. Jackson
J. B. Jackson
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Description for Landscapes: Selected Writings of J.B. Jackson
Paperback. Illustrator(s): Zube, Ervin H. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: RNT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 227.
The author views landscaping as an expression of a way of life. This collection of essays is written for the general reader and features articles without footnotes. The subject matter ranges from disquisitions on ordinary houses, yards, farms, and farmsteads to notes on ecology and from the impact of automobile use, mobile homes, shopping centers, and rural and urban planning to philosophical arguments about the meaning of human space and arguments for and against preservation.
The author views landscaping as an expression of a way of life. This collection of essays is written for the general reader and features articles without footnotes. The subject matter ranges from disquisitions on ordinary houses, yards, farms, and farmsteads to notes on ecology and from the impact of automobile use, mobile homes, shopping centers, and rural and urban planning to philosophical arguments about the meaning of human space and arguments for and against preservation.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1970
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
168
Place of Publication
Massachusetts, United States
ISBN
9780870230721
SKU
V9780870230721
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99-1
About J. B. Jackson
J. B. Jackson was born in 1908 and lived until 1996. Raised and educated in Massachusetts, Jackson studied geography and architecture until he launched the combination of these subjects in his magazine, Landscape. Jackson went on to publish Discovering the Vernacular Landscape (1984), The Essential Landscape: The New Mexico Photographic Survey (1985), and A Sense of Place, a Sense of Time (1994), which won the 1995 PEN International award for the best collection of essays.
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