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The Camaro in the Pasture - Speculations on the Cultural Landscape of America (Paperback)
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The Camaro in the Pasture - Speculations on the Cultural Landscape of America (Paperback)
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Robert Riley has been a renowned figure in landscape studies for
over fifty years, valued for his perceptive, learned, and highly
entertaining articles, reviews, and essays. Much of Riley's work
originally ran in Landscape, the pioneering magazine at which Riley
succeeded the great geographer J. B. Jackson as editor. The Camaro
in the Pasture is the first book to collect this compelling
author's writing. With diverse topics ranging from science-fiction
fantasies to problems of academic design research, the essays in
this volume cover an entire half-century of Riley's observations on
the American landscape. The essays - several of which are new or
previously unpublished - interpret changing rationales for urban
beautification, the evolution and transformation of the strip, the
development of a global landscape of golf and resorts replacing an
older search for exoticism, and the vernacular landscape as
wallpaper rather than quilt. Ultimately, Riley envisions our future
landscape as a rapidly fluctuating electronic net draped over the
more slowly changing and familiar land- and building-based system.
Throughout, Riley emphasizes the vernacular landscape of
contemporary America - how we have shaped and use it, what it is
becoming, and, above all, how we experience it.
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