Based on decades of research and written in clear, concise prose by one of the foremost geographers in North America, John C. Hudson's Across This Land is a comprehensive regional geography of the Nor
Drivers in the nation's capital face a host of hazards: high-speed traffic circles, presidential motorcades, jaywalking tourists, and bewildering signs that send unsuspecting motorists from the Lincol
Driving across Iowa nowadays, one sees acres and acres of flat cornfields and hears little but the leaves stirring. But in the golden age of railroading, tracks crisscrossed the prairies and steam eng
In 1865, when San Francisco's Daily Evening Bulletin asked its readers if it were not time for the city to finally establish a public park, residents had only private gardens and small urban squares w
Containing 202 hand-drawn color maps of every railroad line in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia, this book provides a unique record o
During the late 18th and early 19th centuries both architects and lawyers were seeking to upgrade their occupational status, and McNamara (history, U. of Maine) explains how they, usually working toge
Director emeritus of the Cincinnati Art Museum, Rogers tells how urban designer Nolan (1869-1937) created the midwest town between 1920 and 1925 with financial backing from a wealthy widow of a real e
Most Americans today live in the suburbs. Yet suburban voices remain largely unheard in sociological and cultural studies of these same communities. InSuburban Landscapes: Culture and Politics in a Ne
The concepts of historical regional identity and cultural landscape provide organizing principles for Lanier's (history, James Madison U.) multi-disciplinary study of the area. She looks at the motley
Rehder (geography, U. of Tennessee) shares his knowledge of Southern Appalachia, based on some 30 years spent studying the region. Coverage includes the region's landscape; ethnicity and settlement pa
With his meticulously crafted, hand-drawn maps of America’s complex and extensive railroad network, Richard C. Carpenter recaptures a time when steam locomotives were still king and passenger trains s
Many American democratic ideals are embodied in the public spaces of its cities, especially in Washington, D.C. In L'Enfant's Legacy architect and scholar Michael Bednar explores the public spaces of
Describes the characteristics of greenways, or linear open spaces; shows how they restore contact with nature; and offers advice on planning, engineering, and politics
"Here is the first lesson about the Adirondacks, captured in Gary Randorf's magnificent photos. It is not only alpine granite—in fact, of the park's six million acres, only about eighty-five,
From the eighteenth-century single-room "mansions" of Delaware's Cypress Swamp district to the early twentieth-century suburban housing around Philadelphia and Wilmington, the architectural landscape
Ford (geography, San Diego State U.) features sixteen American cities in his evaluation of urban spaces and urban planning. He has selected ten variables for judging downtowns, including street morpho
City planning was spawned by the Progressive Era urban reform movement at the dawn of the 20th century, explains Peterson (history, City U. of New York-Queens College), in response to the rise of grea
