Landscapes

J. B. Jackson was born in 1908 and lived until 1996. Raised and educated in Massachusetts, Jackson studied geography and architecture until he launched the combination of these subjects in his magazine, Landscape.Jackson went on to publish Discovering the Vernacular Landscape (1984), The Essential Landscape: The New Mexico Photographic Survey (1985), and A Sense of Place, a Sense of Time (1994), which won the 1995 PEN International award for the best collection of essays.

• Jefferson, Thoreau & after.--The westward-moving house.--Several American landscapes.--Other-directed houses.--Life-worship.--The imitation of nature.--Images of the city.--The stranger's path.--Two street scenes.--The many guises of suburbia.--The almost perfect town.--To pity the plumage and forget the dying bird.--The social landscape.--The public landscape.