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Bibliography

Listed below are several of the standard books, texts and essays used by landscape scholars and students. Below my suggested readings is a table of links to more expansive bibliographies related to the American Landscape

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Classics

Conzen, Michael P., ed. 1990. The Making of the American Landscape. Boston: Unwin Hyman.

Meinig, D.W., ed. 1979. The Interpretation of Ordinary Landscapes. New York: Oxford University Press.

Jackson, John Brinckerhoff. 1972. American Space. New York: W.W. Norton.

Jackson, John Brinckerhoff. 1980. The Necessity for Ruins and other Topics. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press.

Jackson, John Brinckerhoff. 1984. Discovering the Vernacular Landscape. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Jakle, John A., Robert W. Bastian and Douglas K. Meyer. 1989. Common Houses in America’s Small Towns: The Atlantic Seaboard to the Mississippi Valley.

Athens: University of Georgia Press.

Stilgoe, John R. 1982. Common Landscapes of America, 1580-1845. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Thompson, George F., ed. 1995. Landscape in America. Austin: University of Texas Press.

Zelinsky, Wilbur. 1973. The Cultural Geography of the United States. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

Classics in the Making?

Barnes, T. and Duncan, J., eds. 1992. Writing Worlds: Discourse, Text and Metaphor in the Representation of Landscape. New York: Routledge.

Cosgrove, D. and Daniels, S. eds.1988. The Iconography of Landscape: Essays on the Symbolic Representation, Design and Use of Past Environments. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Duncan James and David Ley, eds. 1993. place/culture/representation. New York: Routledge.

Foote, Kenneth E., Peter J. Hugill, Kent Mathewson, Jonathan M. Smith, eds. 1994. Re-Reading Cultural Geography. Austin: University of Texas Press.

Groth, Paul and Todd W. Bresi., eds. 1997. Understanding Ordinary Landscapes. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Mitchell, Don. 2000. Cultural Geography. Malden, MA: Blackwell.

 

Some other bibliographies

• U.C. Berkeley: Vernacular Architecture & Landscape Architecture Resource Guide
• U.C. Berkeley: Environmental Design Library
• National Park Service: National Registry of Historic Places, Residential Suburbs - Resource List
• American Studies Program at the University of Maryland: Cultural Landscapes Bibliography
• Jon T. Kilpinen's American Ethnic Geography Bibliography
• Vernacular Architecture Forum - "What to Read"