Everyday America

Chris Wilson is J. B. Jackson Professor of Cultural Landscape Studies at the University of New Mexico. He is the author of The Myth of Santa Fe: Creating a Modern Regional Tradition (1997) and Facing Southwest: The Life and Houses of John Gaw Meem (2001). Paul Groth is Associate Professor in the Departments of Architecture and Geography at the University of California, Berkeley. He is author of Living Downtown: The History of Residential Hotels in the United States (1994) and the coeditor of Understanding Ordinary Landscapes (1997).

"The book's interdisciplinary nature is one of its great gifts. The multiple authorial voices meld into a provocative dialogue that could be likened romantically to an urban market or an ideal academic conference. . . . Although J. B. Jackson did not single-handedly create cultural landscape studies in the United States, he profoundly shaped the field and its practitioners. This volume moves the endeavor forward by focusing a critical eye on his legacy. In the years to come, insights gained from it will inform increasingly complex readings of the built forms surrounding us."

• PREFACE 1. The Polyphony of Cultural Landscape Study: An Introduction --Paul Groth and Chris Wilson EVALUATING J.B. JACKSON 2. J.B. Jackson and the Play of the Mind: Inquiry and Assertion as Contact Sports --Patricia Nelson Limerick 3. J.B. Jackson as a Critic of Modern Architecture --Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz 4. Learning from Brinck --Denise Scott Brown 5. Looking Down the Road: J.B. Jackson and the American Highway Landscape --Timothy Davis TEACHING AND LEARNING LANDSCAPE VISION 6. The Monument and the Bungalow: The Intellectual Legacy of J.B. Jackson --Peirce Lewis 7. Crossing the American Grain with Vesalius, Geddes, and Jackson: The Cross Section as a Learning Tool --Grady Clay 8. Basic "Brincksmanship": Impressions Left in a Youthful Mind --Jeffrey W. Limerick 9. Observations of Faith: Landscape Context in Design Education --Tracy Walker Moir-McClean QUESTIONING THEORETICAL ASSUMPTIONS 10. On Modern Vernaculars and J.B. Jackson --Gwendolyn Wright 11. What (Else) We Talk about When We Talk about Landscape: For a Return to the Social Imagination --George L. Henderson 12. Normative Dimensions of Landscape --Richard H. Schein 13. Private Property and the Ecological Commons in the American West --Mark Fiege INTERPRETING TWENTIETH-CENTURY URBAN LANDSCAPES 14. Gender, Imagination, and Experience in the Early-Twentieth-Century American Downtown --Jessica Sewell 15. Campus, Estate, and Park: Lawn Culture Comes to the Corporation --Louise A. Mozingo 16. The Enacted Environment: Examining the Streets and Yards of East Los Angeles --James Rojas 17. Medicine in the (Mini) Mall: An American Health Care Landscape --David C. Sloane Notes Contributors Illustration Credits Index