Preface
Acknowledgments
A Note on the Illustrations
Introduction
Treasured Wastes: Spaces and Memories
The Deep Past and Images
Landschaft and Linearity: Two Archetypes of Landscape
Jack-o'-Lanterns to Surveyors: The Secularization of Landscape Boundaries
Archipelago Landscape
Walking Seer: Cole as Pedestrian Spectator
Smiling Scenes
Fair Fields and Blasted Rock: American Land Classification Systems and Landscape Aesthetics
Rural Looking
The Magic of Pennsylvania Travel Narratives
Mapping Indiana: Nineteenth-Century School Book Views
Narragansett Bay: A Particular Landscape
Deep Cold: Winter as Landscape
Skewing Private Climate
Camouflaged and Saving Energy
Hobgoblin in Suburbia: Origins of Contemporary Place Consciousness
Contemporary Space
Landscape Jellies, Landscape Jams
Rendezvous by Design: The Automobile City and the Loss of Serendipity
Hard Times and the Evolving Vernacular Landscape
Parts Cars, Green Roofs, and Rural Landscape Preservation
Everyday Rural Landscape and Thoreau's Wild Apples
Small Town and Urban Edges
Photographed Landscape
Reflected Light
Scrutinizing Photographs, Tracing Portals
Scrying Xanadu
Landscape in Limbo
Disjunction, Disunion, Daguerreotype
Popular Photography, Scenery Values, and Visual Assessment
Bikinis, Beaches, and Bombs: Human Nature on the Sand
Sunset Beach, Studio Beach
Sparse and Away
End
Four Mornings, Seven Afternoons
Index