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Reflections on THE NECESSITY FOR RUINS,
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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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- The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences by Michel Foucault on 4 pages
- The Anatomy of Melancholy (New York Review Books Classics) by Robert Burton on page 40, and Back Matter
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt by H. Thomas on page 96
- Dissent in American Religion (Chicago history of American religion) by Edwin S. Gaustad in Back Matter
- The Medieval Village (Dover Books on History, Political and Social Science) by G. G. Coulton in Back Matter
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- Fruitful Sites: Garden Culture in Ming Dynasty China (Envisioning Asia) by Craig Clunas in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Martyred Village: Commemorating the 1944 Massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane by Sarah Farmer on page 216, and Back Matter
- Martyred Village: Commemorating the 1944 Massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane by Sarah Farmer in Back Matter
- The American Lawn by Georges Teyssot on page 196
- The Heritage Crusade and the Spoils of History by David Lowenthal in Back Matter
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