Thesis References
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Beresford, Maurice. History on the Ground. Phoenix Mill, Gloucestershire, England: Sutton Pub., 1998. Originally published in 1957.
Bergeron, Louis, and Maiullari-Pontois, Maria Teresa. Industry, Architecture, and Engineering: American ingenuity, 1750-1950. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2000. A general book about industrial archaeology, illustrated with HABS photographs.
Campanella, Thomas J. Cities from the Sky: An Aerial Portrait of America.New York: Princeton Architectural P., 2001.
Casey, Edward S. Representing Place: Landscape Painting and Maps. Minneapolis: U. of Minnesota P., 2002. A philosopher writes about how landscape painting can try to capture something so large as a landscape. He proposes that landscape, at least in the 18th and 19th century fine art world, was essentially sublime, far greater than the sum of its parts, and that landscape painting worked because it captured this vast essence even as it discarded pieces.
Center for Land Use Interpretation. 5th Avenue Peninsula, Oakland, California: An Inexhaustive Investigation of Urban Content. Culver City, California: Center for Land Use Interpretation, 1995.
Coolidge, Matthew. Simmons, Sarah, ed. Back to the Bay: Exploring the Margins of the San Francisco Bay Region. Culver City, California: Center for Land Use Interpretation, 2001.
Clay, Grady. Close-up, how to read the American city. Chicago: U. of Chicago P., 1980. A pessimist writes about how the car has changed the American landscape. Some of Grady’s predictions proved wrong; most of his observations still hold.
—— Real Places. Chicago: U. of Chicago P., 1994.
Comment, Bernard. The Painted Panorama. New York : Harry N. Abrams, 2000.
Davies, Pete. American Road: The Story of an Epic Transcontinental Journey at the Dawn of the Motor Age. New York: Henry Holt, 2002.
Davis, Mike. Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster. New York: Metropolitan Books, 1998.
Dicum, Gregory. Window Seat: Reading the Landscape from the Air. San Francisco: Chronicle, 2004.
Doherty, Thomas, ed. Postmodernism: a reader. New York: Columbia U. P., 1992. At the most distilled, I am studying ways of seeing – from how I can transfer a gesture to paper, to historiography – and notions of truth. I find myself both speaking in the movement’s terms, and aligning myself against it.
Eardley, A.J. Aerial Photographs: Their Use and Interpretation. New York: Harper & Bros. Pub., 1941.
Ferris, Allison. The disembodied spirit. Brunswick, Maine: Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 2003. Catalog for an exhibition of period and modern “spirit” photography. About making reality by altering photographs.
Flanagan, Michael. Stations. New York: Pantheon, 1994. A fictional landscape beautifully painted and told. A story with easily half a dozen layers. Captures the essence and substance of its real prototypical landscape.
Forster, E.M. Howard’s End. New York: Knopf, 1991.
Fruitema, Evelyn J., and Zoetmulder, Paul A. The Panorama Phenomenon. The Hague: Foundation for the Preservation of the Centenarian Mesdag Panorama, 1981. The Panorama Mesdaq helped me my first way of understanding my thesis ideas as an organizing metaphor.
Glassie, Henry. Folk housing in middle Virginia: a structural analysis of historic artifacts. Knoxville: U. of Tennessee P., 1975. Glassie, a structuralist, lays out grammatical charts of house types. Grounded in thorough fieldwork.
Greenwood, David. Mapping. Chicago: U. of Chicago P., 1964.
Groth, Paul, and Bressi, Todd W., eds. Understanding ordinary landscapes. New Haven: Yale U. P., 1997.
Hanson, David. Waste Land: Mediations on a Ravaged Landscape. New York: Aperture, 1997. Superfund sites described through text, ground photography, aerial photography, and topographic maps.
Hayden, Dolores. The power of place: urban landscapes as public history. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995. History in Los Angeles.
Heller, Steven. Typographica. A monograph about Herbert Spencer and his magazine. Spencer proposed that visually-aware people like architects and designers could help examine the environment by taking photographs, acting neither as amateurs snapshooters nor as professional photographers, but rather as observers who aimed to capture “intense visual situations.”
Holmes, Nigel. Pictorial maps. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1991. Lots of examples, many trashy, most splashy, some thought-provoking.
Hubka, Thomas C. Big house, little house, back house, barn: the connected farm
Imhof, Eduard. Cartographic relief presentation. Berlin and New York: De Gruyter, 1982. A distinctly Swiss approach to a particularly Swiss problem. Beautiful color plates in the back. Imhof ponders many of the same questions that graphic designers face, but from a cartographer’s point of view.
Ives, Howard Chapin. Surveying Manual. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1931.
Jackson, John Brinckerhoff. Discovering the Vernacular Landscape. New Haven: Yale U. P., 1984. A collection of essays written by one of the founders of the landscape-history field. I first read it a decade ago, yet I carried it with me during last summer’s trip through the South.
——The Necessity for Ruins and Other Topics. Amherst, MA: U. of Massachusetts P., 1980. Another collection of essays.
——A sense of place, a sense of time: an exhibition of drawings by John Brinckerhoff Jackson. New York: Municipal Art Society, 1996. Helps one to understand J.B. Jackson’s visual side.
Jacobs, Jane. The Life and Death of Great American Cities. New York: Vintage Books, 1961.
Jakle, John A. The visual elements of landscape. Amherst, Mass.: U. of Massachusetts P., 1987. Looking at landscape’s aesthetic qualities, but focusing on vernacular and organic examples rather than high-style landscape architecture.
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Mr. Keedy. “Style is not a four-letter word.” Emgire 67.
Kollmar, John. The Aerographics Guide to Aerial Photography. Far Hills, New Jersey: Aerographics Publications, 1997.
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Lanier, Gabrielle M., and Herman, Bernard L. Everyday architecture of the Mid-Atlantic: looking at buildings and landscapes. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins U. P., 1997. Includes a chapter on how to document houses for the architectural historian’s purposes.
Larson, Erik. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America. New York: Random House, 2003. About the architecture of the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, and also about a serial killer working in Chicago at the time. Seems well-researched. The combination of the two subjects strikes me as bizarre. Certainly they remain unconnected.
Laseau, Paul. Graphic Thinking for Architects and Designers. New York: J. Wiley, 2001. A textbook for architects. Simple, vigorous, and full of diagrams and drawings, from the instinctive to the analytical.
Link, O. Winston. The Last Steam Railroad in America. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2000, Staged photography of moving trains. About a photographer who created a hyper-reality in the pursuit of documentary.
Lovecraft, H.P. The Dunwich horror and other stories. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1963. Originally borrowed as pleasure reading, it proved mindful of landscape. Old New England takes a forceful, if strange and bizarrely Anglicized, role in these novels. There are places in Eastern Massachusetts that brood and smell of age like the fictional ones in Lovecraft’s fantasies, and the Brown Quad on a snowless winter night could certainly pass for Arkham University.
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Mitchell, William J. The Reconfigured Eye: Visual Truth in the Post-Photographic Era. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1994.
Olin, Laurie. Across the open field: essays drawn from English landscapes. Philadelphia: U. of Pennsylvania P., 2000. Olin, Laurie. An author able to find the prosaic truth about settings that could inspire much bad poetry.
Poynor, Rick. Typographica. New York: Princeton Architectural P., 2002. About the design magazine. I can understand its appeal to the semiologist, but also interesting is the argument that
Reps, John W. Bird’s Eye Views: Historic Lithographs of North American Cities. New York: Princeton Architectural P., 1998.
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Simmons, Sarah, and Coolidge, Matthew, eds. Commonwealth of Technology: Extrapolations on the Contemporary Landscape of Massachusetts. Culver City, California: Center for Land Use Interpretation, 1999.
Simmons, Sarah, ed. Route 58: A Cross-Section of California. Culver City, California: Center for Land Use Interpretation, 2000.
Starr, Kevin. Material Dreams: Southern California Through the 1920s. New York: Oxford U. P., 1990.
Sternfeld, Joel. Walking the High Line. Göttingen: Steidl ; New York: Pace/MacGill Gallery, 2001. Photographs of a disused elevated freight line on New York’s West Side – images of wildflower-laden meadows snaking through the skyscrapers.
Stilgoe, John. Borderland: Origins of the American Suburb, 1820–1939. New Haven: Yale U. P., 1988.
——Landscape and Images. Charlottesville: U. of Virginia P., 2005. Ways of understanding landscape through period photographs; ways in which photographs shaped the historical understanding of landscape; an essay on the need of looking, and looking deeply.
Swift, Graham. Waterland. A novel about history, place, and the things that respectable people keep hidden.
——Ever After. New York: Vintage International, 1992. Another novel about individuals and their links to history.
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Tilden, Freeman. Interpreting Our Heritage. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: U. of North Carolina P., 1957. The definitive text about interpretation as practiced in American’s National Parks.
Tolleson, Steven. Tolleson Design. New York: Princeton Architectural P., 1999. On the uses of diagrams in the design process.
Trachtenberg, Alan. Reading American Photographs: Images as History, Mathew Brady to Walker Evans. New York: Hill and Wang, 1989.
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Watts, May Theilgaard. Reading the landscape; an adventure in ecology. New York, Macmillan, 1957. Fictionalized case studies and elegant explanatory drawings showing processes in the natural environment.
Wessels, Tom. Reading the Forested Landscape: A Natural History of New England. Woodstock, Vermont: The Countryman Press, 1997. Tom Wessels takes his readers through the process of examining the landscape and constructing stories from the clues one finds. Natural-history orientation. Magnificent etchings as illustrations – drawings constructed as case studies.
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Wilson, Chris, and Groth, Paul, eds. Everyday America: Cultural Landscape Studies after J.B. Jackson. Berkeley: U. of California P., 2003. An odd book in that most of the essays dance at the edge of J.B. Jackson’s shadow. Ultimately looks toward the field’s future.
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