Bibliography

The list below represents an initial attempt at compiling a list of significant readings and resources for students of the built environment.

  • 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. 
  • 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"