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The Making of the American Landscape (ed. by Michael P. Conzen) — 2nd Edition — TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chap. 1 Nature’s bequest
Stanley W. Trimble, University of California at Los Angeles
Chap. 2 Indian settlement landscapes
Karl W. Butzer, University of Texas at AustinChap. 3 Hispanic landscape traditions David Hornbeck, California State University at Northridge
Chap. 4 The French imprint on North America
Cole Harris, University of British ColumbiaChap.
Chap. 5 Americanizing English landscape habits
Peirce F. Lewis, The Pennsylvania State UniversityChap. 6 The plantation regime Charles S. Aiken, University of TennesseeChap. 7 Gridding a national landscape Hildegard B. Johnson, Macalester College
Chap. 8 Clearing the forests
Michael Williams, University of Oxford
Chap. 9 Remaking the prairies
John C. Hudson, Northwestern University
Chap. 10 Watering the deserts
James L. Wescoat, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Chap. 11 Designing American utopias
Bret Wallach, University of OklahomaChap. 12 Inscribing ethnicity on the land Susan W. Hardwick, University of Oregon
Chap. 13 Organizing religious landscapes
Wilbur Zelinsky, The Pennsylvania State UniversityChap. 14 Mechanizing the American earth David R. Meyer, Brown University
Chap. 15 Building American cityscapes
Edward K. Muller, University of Pittsburgh
Chap. 16 Asserting central authority
Wilbur Zelinsky, The Pennsylvania State UniversityChap. 17 Creating landscapes of civil society Joseph S. Wood, University of Southern Maine
Chap. 18 Imposing landscapes of private power and wealth
William K. Wyckoff, Montana State University
Chap. 19 Paving America for the automobile
John A. Jakle, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Chap. 20 Developing corporate consumption venues
Michael P. Conzen, The University of Chicago
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Jeff Holzimn
reviewed The Making of the American Landscape on January 02, 2015
The Making of the American Landscape
I had many moments of surprised recognition in this book--perhaps you would too. "Other people do that too?" moments. The three sections of the book--waiting, routines & daydreaming--talk about what we do & why we do it. My favorite section was the one on waiting--their summary (From David Maister's work) of what makes waits feel longer or shorter I thought was a brilliant encapsulation. I always say, tell me it will be an hour and I will wait relatively patiently; tell me it will be 20 minutes and then make me wait an hour, and I'll be really angry. It's not the hour. Their summary:
1) People want to get going--waiting for a menu feels like longer than waiting for the food
2) Uncertain waits are longer than known, finite waits
3) Unexplained waits are longer than explained waits
4) Unfair waits are longer than reasonable waits--as when someone answers the phone while you wait in the office for your own turn (they cut!)
5) The more valuable the service, the more patience the customer will show
6) Solo waits feel longer than group waits
Their conclusion at the end of the book is that what seem like very private moments are actually based on shared understandings.
Anyway, it was worth it just to see that other people do what I do when they are just sitting around....
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