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| The Necessity for Ruins, and Other Topics | 
 enlarge | Author: John Brinckerhoff Jackson
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 127417
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 136
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.5
ISBN: 0870232924
Dewey Decimal Number: 333
EAN: 9780870232923
ASIN: 0870232924
Publication Date: May 1980
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good September 24, 2007
0 out of 6 found this review helpful
the book arrived quiclky and I'm happy with it nevertheless it as some underlined sentences (used books are usually like this) but it's quite ok.
Reflections on THE NECESSITY FOR RUINS April 25, 2000
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
J. B. Jackson, the founder and longtime editor of the journal LANDSCAPE, helped readers appreciate, and understand, the modern American landscape--parks and cemeteries, to be sure, but also commercial strips and house types, roads and streetscapes--in all of its marvelous complexity. This short volume contains a number of Jackson's vintage essays. The first and last chapters explain the author's approach to the landscape. Other essays include discussions of gardens and sacred groves, the domestication of the garage, and keys to reading streetscapes. The title essay, "The Necessity for Ruins," begins as a reverie on the importance of public monuments before wryly concluding that history has fallen victim to preservation and the heritage industry. These engagingly written essays are the product of an enquiring mind determined to find meaning in our everyday surroundings..
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