Understanding ordinary landscapes / edited by Paul Groth

1. Frameworks for cultural landscape study paul groth--
2.Visual landscapes of a streetcar suburb --
3.Landscape and archives as taxts--
4.Conflicting landscape values : The samta clara pueblo and day school --
5.Hallwoed grounds and rituals of remembrance : Union regimental monuments at gettysburg --
6.The visual character of chinatowns --
7.Where the one - eyed man is kingg : the tyranny of visual and formalist values in evaluating landscapes --
8.Spectacle and society: Landscape as theater in premodern and postmodern cities--
9.Urban landscape history : The sense of place and the politics of space --
10.The politics of vision --
11.The future of the vernacular--
12.Seeing beyond the dominant culture --
13.Unseen and disbelieved: A political economist among cultural geography --
14.See, Unseen and scene --
15.European landscape transformations : The rural residue --
16.The Integrity of the landscape movement --
17.The visible , the visual ,and the vicarious: Questions about vision, landscape , and experience .

How does knowledge of everyday environments foster deeper understanding of both past and present cultural life? This text explores aspects of the emergent field of cultural landscape studies, demonstrating the value of investigating the many meanings of the ordinary setting.