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Train Time: Railroads and the Imminent Reshaping of the United States Landscape The first of three books on the immediate future, this one emphasizes how deep-pocket capital has already reinvested in the railroad industry and already reshapes American landscape and life. |
| Landscape and Images is a close scrutiny of shaped land, from medieval times to the present, skewed by analysis of painting and photography and twisted by meditations on winter, goblins, edges, rural countryside, bikinis, beach imagery, daguerreotypes, romance, energy-conserving site design, privacy, and other topics originating in just looking around. |
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Lifeboat analyzes survival after catastrophe, how old notions of navigation and seamanship triumph when technology fails, the reasons why some people survive and others die, and why so few modern-day readers ponder the dangerous realities of global travel. |
| Outside Lies Magic: Discovering History and Inspiration in Ordinary
Places examines the rewards of walking and bicycling in ordinary landscapes. |
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Alongshore studies the built environment of the United States seacoast, analyzing issues like the growing fascination with quaintness, the history of recreational small boating, the class differences apparent in subjects from swimming to bikinis, the growing popularity of amateur natural history, painting, and photography alongshore, and the enduring evidence that the United States worried intermittently about invasion by sea. |
| Shallow Water Dictionary : A Grounding in Estuary English is a narration about two things: rowing a small boat in a sea of salt marshes, and exploring a collection of general and specialized dictionaries to learn why salt-marsh terms like guzzle have disappeared from United States speech and even from dictionaries, despite being used by Thoreau and other great writers. Partly about salt marsh ecosystems, partly about the ecology of language, the book deals with such out-of-the-ordinary issues as the inability of Kodak color film to accurately render the various colors nowadays vaguely called chartreuse. |
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Borderland: Origins of the American Suburb, 1820-1939 analyzes the creation of North American suburbs between the late eighteenth century and 1939, focusing especially on why educated Americans created a new sort of landscape rather than remain in cities or move to rural areas. Dealing with both the first haphazard suburbs and subsequent planned communities, the book focuses on the spatial elements peculiarly important in defining suburban space, and emphasizes why those elements are of particular value in understanding the history of American women and children. |
| Metropolitan Corridor : Railroads and the American Scene examines the United States railroad environment in the years between 1880 and 1930, focusing on railroad travel, the perceptions of train passengers, and the constituents of the rail corridor itself, everything from power plants and industrial zones to railroad yards, grade crossings, suburban depots and the first landscapes shaped by railroad abandonment. |
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Common Landscape of America, 1580 to 1845 describes and analyzes the creation of the North American built environment from the time of permanent Spanish settlement in northern New Spain until the beginning of the railroad era two and a half centuries later. Sweeping from New Spain to New England, from the Tidewater South to New France, the book analyzes the creation of the great national landscape now common to all Americans. |