J. B. Jackson

'No one who cares deeply about landscape issues can overlook the scores of brilliant insights and challenges to the mind, eye and conscience contained in Discovering the Vernacular Landscape. It is a book to be deeply cherished and to be read and pondered many times.' -Wilbur Zelinsky, Landscape

Jefferson, Thoreau & after.--The westward-moving house.--Several American landscapes.--Other-directed houses.--Life-worship.--The imitation of nature.--Images of the city.--The stranger's path.--Two street scenes.--The many guises of suburbia.--The almost perfect town.--To pity the plumage and forget the dying bird.--The social landscape.--The public landscape.

This anthology of the author's writings on the American landscape, illustrated with his own sketches and photographs, brings together his most famous essays, significant but less well known writings and articles that were originally published unsigned or under pseudonyms.

This work takes readers on a tour of American landscapes past and present, showing how surroundings reflect important changes in culture. The book examines the new vernacular landscape of trailers, parking lots, roads and shopping malls.

As old as a roadway that was once a Native trail, as new as the suburban subdivisions spreading across the American countryside, the cultural landscape is endlessly changing. The study of cultural landscapes--a far more recent development--has also undergone great changes, ever broadening, deepening, and refining our understanding of the intricate webs of social and ecological spaces that help to define human groups and their activities. Everyday America surveys the widening conceptions and applications of cultural landscape writing in the United States and, in doing so, offers a clear and compelling view of the state of cultural landscape studies today. These essays--by distinguished journalists, historians, cultural geographers, architects, landscape architects, and planners--constitute a critical evaluation of the field’s theoretical assumptions, and of the work of John Brinckerhoff Jackson, the pivotal figure in the emergence of cultural landscape studies. At the same time, they present exemplary studies of twentieth-century landscapes, from the turn-of-the-century American downtown to the corporate campus and the mini-mall. Assessing the field’s accomplishments and shortcomings, offering insights into teaching the subject, and charting new directions for its future development, Everyday America is an eloquent statement of the meaning, value, and potential of the close study of human environments as they embody, reflect, and reveal American culture.

The study of the cultural meaning of landscapes is of increasing interest in several fields. This book attempts to open up the subject to a wider audience, and is the first to deal with the basic principles of reading the landscape'.

Ce livre historique peut contenir de nombreuses coquilles et du texte manquant. Les acheteurs peuvent generalement telecharger une copie gratuite scannee du livre original (sans les coquilles) aupres de l'editeur. Non reference. Non illustre. 1867 edition. Extrait: ...les plaques daguerriennes est une sorte de lumiere trop aigue pour etre percue par notre retine. De longues series d'experiences demontrent jusqu'a l'evidence les faits que je ne puis qu'enoncer. Les forces mecaniques et le son, la chaleur et la lumiere, ne sont donc que les divers effets d'une seule et meme cause qui impressionne nos differents organes et nous donne des sensations variees. Une seule force est repandue sur la terre et produit tous les phenomenes; une seule force anime tout l'univers, et c'est celle qui imprime aux mondes leur mouvement et leur vie. Notre intelligence s'est ainsi elevee jusqu'a ces regions sereines, d'ou nous pouvons contempler les eternelles lois de la nature; elles se deroulent devant nous dans leur harmonie simple et majestueuse, et, maintenant que nous les avons devinees et comprises, nous pouvons rechercher avec confiance ce qui est encore inconnu. IV.--L'electricite est une transformation de cette force; c'est une des nombreuses formes sous lesquelles elle se revele a nous. Mais, a son tour, la foudre peut se transformer et elle peut affecter nos divers organes. Tantot elle fait contracter nos muscles et transporte des fardeaux: elle nous apparait alors comme une force mecanique; tantot elle nous procure une impression de chaleur et de lumiere et se manifeste par ces differentes sensations; tantot elle ebranle l'air, et nous entendons l'etincelle; tantot enfin elle produit des actions chimiques. Tous ces effets ont ete...

From 1951 to 1969, John Brinckerhoff (J. B.) Jackson founded, edited, and published Landscape, a magazine that changed the way scholars, writers, teachers, designers, planners, and artists came to understand the everyday places that surround us and influence us in fundamental ways. Then, as a lecturer at Harvard University and the University of California, Berkeley, Jackson further pioneered "landscape studies," a field through which he continues to inspire those who study and interpret landscapes, whether urban, rural, suburban, social, or wild. Drawn to Landscape is the first book to present fully the many aspects of Jackson's career. Including original essays by those who not only knew him best but who have carried his torch to new heights in their own respective work, the book sheds valuable light on Jackson’s life and oeuvre, from the time of his childhood to his death in 1996, as well as on his many legacies that remain today. Also included, some pieces reproduced for the first time, is a wide-ranging display of Jackson's original drawings, watercolors, and teaching slides. J. B. Jackson taught us to pay attention to the often overlooked but defining features of our landscapes, such as the road and commercial strip, the garage and backyard, and flea markets and borderlands, as well as changing recreational uses of the land, the necessity for ruins and the inherent artificiality of historic preservation, and the importance of the clock--as opposed to the geographical and spiritual grounding of indigenous cultures--in defining our communities, societies, and economies. The book will be a welcome addition to anyone seeking, as Jackson urged, to "read the landscape" in order to understand our everyday world in new and enlightened ways. Distributed for George F. Thompson Publishing

French translation of Discovering the Vernacular Landscape.

Jackson guides viewers on a tour of the world in which they live, inspiring them to find beauty and complexity in what is usually considered mundane.
Genre:
Documentary television programs.
Credits:
Narrator, Peter Coyote ; editor, Blair Gershkow.
Performers:
Narrator, Peter Coyote ; editor, Blair Gershkow.

Fine Arts Digital Media

On site in various locations, J.B. Jackson explains his theories of human interaction with landscape and its result as urban and quasi-urban spaces.
Genre:
Documentary films.
Nonfiction films.
DVDs.
Credits:
Cinematographer, Richard P. Rogers ; editors, Claire Marino, Janet Mendelsohn ; music, Peter Carino.
Performers:
Narrator, Lindsay Crouse.
Notes:Originally released in 1987.

Periodical.
Creator/ Editor: J.B. Jackson, 1951-1968

I. Santa Fe to Taos -- II. Santa Fe to the upper Espanola Valley -- III. Santa Fe to Pecos and Villanueva.
"These guides are reproduced for the annual conference of the Vernacular Architecture Forum, Santa Fe, May, 1991 with the permission of John B. Jackson ... and John P. Conron ..."--Cf Foreword.
"These guides are reproduced for the annual conference of the Vernacular Architecture Forum, Santa Fe, May, 1991 with the permission of John B. Jackson ... and John P. Conron ..."--Cf. Foreword.
With: Take a trip with New Mexico Architecture : an architectural guide to Northern New Mexico / Bainbridge Bunting. New Mexico Architecture, 1970. Vol. 12, nos. 9-10.