Tumblr (3.0; @culturalgeographylist)http://culturalgeographylist.tumblr.com/<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxans4QXdI1r9qkj1o1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><h1>Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics</h1> <h2>Rebecca Solnit</h2> <p>Rebecca Solnit has made a vocation of journeying into difficult territory and reporting back, as an environmentalist, antiglobalization activist, and public intellectual. <em>Storming the Gates of Paradise</em>, an anthology of her essential essays from the past ten years, takes the reader from the Pyrenees to the U.S.—Mexican border, from San Francisco to London, from open sky to the deepest mines, and from the antislavery struggles of two hundred years ago to today’s street protests. The nearly forty essays collected here comprise a unique guidebook to the American landscape after the millennium—not just the deserts, skies, gardens, and wilderness areas that have long made up Solnit’s subject matter, but the social landscape of democracy and repression, of borders, ruins, and protests. She ventures into territories as dark as prison and as sublime as a broad vista, revealing beauty in the harshest landscape and political struggle in the most apparently serene view. Her introduction sets the tone and the book’s overarching themes as she describes Thoreau, leaving the jail cell where he had been confined for refusing to pay war taxes and proceeding directly to his favorite huckleberry patch. In this way she links pleasure to politics, brilliantly demonstrating that the path to paradise has often run through prison.<br/> These startling insights on current affairs, politics, culture, and history, always expressed in Solnit’s pellucid and graceful prose, constantly revise our views of the otherwise ordinary and familiar. Illustrated throughout, <em>Storming the Gates of Paradise</em> represents recent developments in Solnit’s thinking and offers the reader a panoramic world view enriched by her characteristically provocative, inspiring, and hopeful observations.</p>http://culturalgeographylist.tumblr.com/post/15310243781http://culturalgeographylist.tumblr.com/post/15310243781Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:00:00 -0500addessayslandscapepolitics<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxak5oKyro1r9qkj1o1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><h1>A Sense of Place, a Sense of Time</h1> <h2>John Brinckerhoff Jackson</h2> <p>J. B. Jackson, a pioneer in the field of landscape studies, here takes us on a tour of American landscapes past and present, showing how our surroundings reflect important changes in our culture. Because we live in urban and industrial environments that are constantly evolving, says Jackson, time and movement are increasingly important to us, place and permanence less so. We no longer gain a feeling of community from where we live or assemble but from common work hours, habits, and customs.</p>http://culturalgeographylist.tumblr.com/post/15306276882http://culturalgeographylist.tumblr.com/post/15306276882Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:41:00 -0500addeverydayhistorylandscape<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxaitdSnIh1r9qkj1o1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><h1>Spatial Recall: Memory in Architecture and Landscape</h1> <p>Architecture and designed landscapes serve as grand mnemonic devices that record and transmit vital aspects of culture and history. <em>Spatial Recall</em> casts a broad net over the concept of memory and gives a variety of perspectives from twelve internationally noted scholars, practicing designers, and artists such as Juhani Pallasmaa, Adriaan Geuze, Susan Schwartzenberg, Georges Descombes and Esther da Costa Meyer.</p>http://culturalgeographylist.tumblr.com/post/15304946283http://culturalgeographylist.tumblr.com/post/15304946283Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:12:00 -0500addarchitecturegenerallandscapememory<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx398uXXe01r9qkj1o1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><h1>Everyday America: Cultural Landscape Studies after J. B. Jackson</h1> <p>As old as a roadway that was once a Native trail, as new as the suburban subdivisions spreading across the American countryside, the cultural landscape is endlessly changing. The study of cultural landscapes—a far more recent development—has also undergone great changes, ever broadening, deepening, and refining our understanding of the intricate webs of social and ecological spaces that help to define human groups and their activities. *Everyday America *surveys the widening conceptions and applications of cultural landscape writing in the United States and, in doing so, offers a clear and compelling view of the state of cultural landscape studies today.</p>http://culturalgeographylist.tumblr.com/post/15099781289http://culturalgeographylist.tumblr.com/post/15099781289Sat, 31 Dec 2011 22:02:54 -0500everydaygenerallandscapespatial turnreading group<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx38ljviqk1r9qkj1o1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><h1>The Interpretation of Ordinary Landscapes: Geographical Essays</h1> <h2>Donald W. Meinig</h2> <p>The study of the cultural meaning of landscapes is of increasing interest in several fields. This book attempts to open up the subject to a wider audience, and is the first to deal with the basic principles of `reading the landscape’.</p>http://culturalgeographylist.tumblr.com/post/15099196801http://culturalgeographylist.tumblr.com/post/15099196801Sat, 31 Dec 2011 21:48:56 -0500essayseverydaylandscapereading group<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx38ikodOo1r9qkj1o1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><h1>The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America</h1> <h2>Leo Marx</h2> <p>For over four decades, Leo Marx’s work has focused on the relationship between technology and culture in 19th- and 20th-century America. His research helped to define—and continues to give depth to—the area of American studies concerned with the links between scientific and technological advances, and the way society and culture both determine these links.</p>http://culturalgeographylist.tumblr.com/post/15099120289http://culturalgeographylist.tumblr.com/post/15099120289Sat, 31 Dec 2011 21:47:09 -0500literary criticismruraltechnologyreading group<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx38hhIRi21r9qkj1o1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><h1>Landscape in Sight: Looking at America</h1> <h2>John Brinckerhoff Jackson</h2> <p>Focusing not on nature but on landscape — land shaped by human presence — Jackson invites us to see the everyday places of the American countryside and city. This appealing anthology, illustrated with Jackson’s sketches and photographs, brings together his most famous essays, significant but less well known writings, articles originally published under pseudonyms, a bibliography of his landscape writings, and introductions that place his work in context.</p>http://culturalgeographylist.tumblr.com/post/15099092147http://culturalgeographylist.tumblr.com/post/15099092147Sat, 31 Dec 2011 21:46:30 -0500essayseverydaylandscapereading group<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx38giovXa1r9qkj1o1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><h1>The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History</h1> <h2>Dolores Hayden</h2> <p>Based on her extensive experience in the urban communities of Los Angeles, historian and architect Dolores Hayden proposes new perspectives on gender, race, and ethnicity to broaden the practice of public history and public art, enlarge urban preservation, and reorient the writing of urban history to spatial struggles.</p>http://culturalgeographylist.tumblr.com/post/15099066515http://culturalgeographylist.tumblr.com/post/15099066515Sat, 31 Dec 2011 21:45:54 -0500artcase studieshistorypoliticsurbanreading group<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx38dvx2x91r9qkj1o1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><h1>Building Suburbia: Green Fields and Urban Growth, 1820-2000</h1> <h2>Dolores Hayden</h2> <p>A lively history of the contested landscapes where the majority of Americans now live, *Building Suburbia *chronicles two centuries in the birth and development of America’s metropolitan regions.</p>http://culturalgeographylist.tumblr.com/post/15098998620http://culturalgeographylist.tumblr.com/post/15098998620Sat, 31 Dec 2011 21:44:20 -0500historysuburbanreading group<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx384i1Qly1r9qkj1o1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><h1>Social Formation and Symbolic Landscape</h1> <h2>Denis E. Cosgrove</h2> <p>Hailed as a landmark in its field since its first publication in 1984, Denis E. Cosgrove’s *Social Formation and Symbolic Landscape *has been influential well beyond geography. It has continued to spark lively debate among historians, geographers, art historians, social theorists, landscape architects, and others interested in the social and cultural politics of landscape.</p>http://culturalgeographylist.tumblr.com/post/15098757245http://culturalgeographylist.tumblr.com/post/15098757245Sat, 31 Dec 2011 21:38:43 -0500arthistorylandscapepoliticsreading group<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx3808IHsx1r9qkj1o1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><h1>Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth (Harvard Paperback, HP 21)</h1> <h2>Henry Nash Smith</h2> <p>The spell that the West has always exercised on the American people had its most intense impact on American literature and thought during the nineteenth century. Smith shows, with vast comprehension, the influence of the nineteenth-century West in all its variety and strength, in special relation to social, economic, cultural, and political forces. He traces the myths and symbols of the Westward movement such as the general notion of a Westward-moving Course of Empire, the Wild Western hero, the virtuous yeoman-farmer—in such varied nineteenth-century writings as <em>Leaves of Grass</em>, the great corpus of Dime Novels, and most notably, Frederick Jackson Turner’s <em>The Frontier in American History</em>. Moreover, he synthesizes the imaginative expression of Western myths and symbols in literature with their role in contemporary politics, economics, and society, embodied in such forms as the idea of Manifest Destiny, the conflict in the American mind between idealizations of primitivism on the one hand and of progress and civilization on the other, the Homestead Act of 1862, and public-land policy after the Civil War.</p>http://culturalgeographylist.tumblr.com/post/15098645056http://culturalgeographylist.tumblr.com/post/15098645056Sat, 31 Dec 2011 21:36:09 -0500historylandscapeliterary criticismnationwestreading group<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx37uu9fvQ1r9qkj1o1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><h1>The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects</h1> <h2>Lewis Mumford</h2> <p>The city’s development from ancient times to the modern age.</p>http://culturalgeographylist.tumblr.com/post/15098503655http://culturalgeographylist.tumblr.com/post/15098503655Sat, 31 Dec 2011 21:32:54 -0500historyreferenceurbanreading group<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx37smCczH1r9qkj1o1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><h1>Space, Place, and Gender</h1> <h2>Doreen Massey</h2></p>http://culturalgeographylist.tumblr.com/post/15098444890http://culturalgeographylist.tumblr.com/post/15098444890Sat, 31 Dec 2011 21:31:35 -0500gendertheoryreading group<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx37qvzPVj1r9qkj1o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><h1>The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society</h1> <h2>Lucy R. Lippard</h2> <p>In The Lure of the Local, Lucy R. Lippard, one of America’s most influential art writers, weaves together cultural studies, history, geography, and contemporary art to provide a fascinating exploration of our multiple senses of place. Expanding her reach far beyond the confines of the art world, she discusses community, land use, perceptions of nature, how we produce the landscape, and how the landscape affects our lives. In this extensively illustrated, beautifully produced volume, she consistently makes unexpected connections between contemporary art and its political, social, and cultural contexts.</p>http://culturalgeographylist.tumblr.com/post/15098398626http://culturalgeographylist.tumblr.com/post/15098398626Sat, 31 Dec 2011 21:30:32 -0500artcase studieshistorypoliticstheoryreading group<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx37fu9CbG1r9qkj1o1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><h1>The Betweenness of Place: Towards a Geography of Modernity</h1> <h2>J. Nicholas Entrikin</h2> <p>What makes New York City different from Moscow? Are small towns looking more and more alike? What criteria should we use to distinguish one place from another? Today, geographers and other social scientists are debating not only the answers to these sorts of questions but even whether or not to ask them at all. This ongoing controversy about how (or whether) to study place and its meaning in modern life forms the focus of J. Nicholas Entrikin’s pioneering work.</p>http://culturalgeographylist.tumblr.com/post/15098105977http://culturalgeographylist.tumblr.com/post/15098105977Sat, 31 Dec 2011 21:23:54 -0500modernitytheoryreading group<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx37b5Oxl61r9qkj1o1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><h1>Spirit Poles amd Flying PIgs</h1> <h2>Erika Doss</h2></p>http://culturalgeographylist.tumblr.com/post/15097981302http://culturalgeographylist.tumblr.com/post/15097981302Sat, 31 Dec 2011 21:21:06 -0500artpoliticsreading group<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx374nV1WY1r9qkj1o1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><h1>Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England</h1> <h2>William Cronon</h2></p>http://culturalgeographylist.tumblr.com/post/15097808673http://culturalgeographylist.tumblr.com/post/15097808673Sat, 31 Dec 2011 21:17:12 -0500case studiesenvironmentalismhistoryreading group<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx373hEZkC1r9qkj1o1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><h1>On the Move: Mobility in the Modern Western World</h1> <h2>Timothy Cresswell</h2> <p>On the Move presents a rich history of one of the key concepts of modern life: mobility. Increasing mobility has been a constant throughout the modern era, evident in mass car ownership, plane travel, and the rise of the Internet. </p>http://culturalgeographylist.tumblr.com/post/15097777916http://culturalgeographylist.tumblr.com/post/15097777916Sat, 31 Dec 2011 21:16:30 -0500historymobilityreading group<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx3709Q0ZX1r9qkj1o1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><h1>All That Is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity</h1> <h2>Marshall Berman</h2> <p>Marshall Berman’s “All That Is Solid Melts Into Air” is widely acclaimed as one of the greatest books on modernity. A kaleidoscopic journey into the experiences of modernization, the dizzying social changes that swept millions of people into the capitalist world, it dexterously interweaves an exploration of modernism in art, literature, and architecture.</p>http://culturalgeographylist.tumblr.com/post/15097691294http://culturalgeographylist.tumblr.com/post/15097691294Sat, 31 Dec 2011 21:14:34 -0500modernitytheoryreading group<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx36pomLtk1r9qkj1o1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><h1>The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change</h1> <h2>David Harvey</h2> <p>In this new book, David Harvey seeks to determine what is meant by the term in its different contexts and to identify how accurate and useful it is as a description of contemporary experience.</p>http://culturalgeographylist.tumblr.com/post/15097408404http://culturalgeographylist.tumblr.com/post/15097408404Sat, 31 Dec 2011 21:08:13 -0500modernitytheoryreading group