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Landscapes of Privilege: Aesthetics and Affluence in an American Suburb Book

Landscapes of Privilege: Aesthetics and Affluence in an American Suburb
Landscapes of Privilege: Aesthetics and Affluence in an American Suburb, How do landscapes work as class codes? In Landscapes of Privilege, James and Nancy Duncan look at how the aesthetics of physical landscapes are fully enmeshed in producing the American class system. Focusing on an archetypal upper class American suburb --, Landscapes of Privilege: Aesthetics and Affluence in an American Suburb has a rating of 4 stars
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  • Landscapes of Privilege: Aesthetics and Affluence in an American Suburb
  • Written by author Nancy Duncan
  • Published by Taylor & Francis, Inc., October 2003
  • How do landscapes work as class codes? In Landscapes of Privilege, James and Nancy Duncan look at how the aesthetics of physical landscapes are fully enmeshed in producing the American class system. Focusing on an archetypal upper class American suburb --
  • Duncan and Duncan (both geography, Cambridge U.) describe the role that aesthetics plays in the production of place and of identities through houses, gardens, and home communities; and comment on the wider social consequences such an aestheticized view of
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Acknowledgments
Ch. 1Introduction1
Ch. 2Bedford in Context13
Ch. 3The Narrative Structures: The Cultural Codes of a Landscape Aesthetic37
Ch. 4Anxious Pleasures: Place-Based Identity and the Look of the Land59
Ch. 5Legislating Beauty: The Politics of Exclusion85
Ch. 6The Taxman Cometh: The Gift of Nature in Suburbia129
Ch. 7Fabricating History: The Production of Heritage in Bedford Village149
Ch. 8Another Country: Latino Labor and the Politics of Disappearance175
Ch. 9Epilogue219
Notes225
Bibliography243
Index259


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