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Title: The Necessity for Ruins, and Other Topics by John Brinckerhoff Jackson ISBN: 0-87023-291-6 Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Pr Pub. Date: 01 May, 1980 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Summary: Reflections on THE NECESSITY FOR RUINS
Comment: J. B. Jackson, the founder and longtime editor of the journal LANDSCAPE, helped readers appreciate, and understand, the modern American landscape--parks and cemeteries, to be sure, but also commercial strips and house types, roads and streetscapes--in all of its marvelous complexity. This short volume contains a number of Jackson's vintage essays. The first and last chapters explain the author's approach to the landscape. Other essays include discussions of gardens and sacred groves, the domestication of the garage, and keys to reading streetscapes. The title essay, "The Necessity for Ruins," begins as a reverie on the importance of public monuments before wryly concluding that history has fallen victim to preservation and the heritage industry. These engagingly written essays are the product of an enquiring mind determined to find meaning in our everyday surroundings..
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Title: A Sense of Place, a Sense of Time by John Brinckerhoff Jackson ISBN: 0300063970 Publisher: Yale University Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1996 List Price(USD): $13.51 |
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Title: Discovering the Vernacular Landscape by John Brinckerhoff Jackson ISBN: 0300035810 Publisher: Yale University Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 1986 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Landscape in Sight: Looking at America by John Brinckerhoff Jackson, Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz ISBN: 0300080743 Publisher: Yale University Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard, Maria Jolas, M. Jolas ISBN: 0807064734 Publisher: Beacon Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1994 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Heavenly Mansions and Other Essays on Architecture (Norton Books for Architects & Designers) by John Summerson ISBN: 0393318575 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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