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The Necessity for Ruins and Other Topics
by
J.B. Jackson
What emerges from these essays is a book that is distinguished for its range of reference, its subtle interplay between cultural and artistic history, and its ability to both challenge our current topical notions of the role of the environment and to illustrate our obligation to study the history of our surroundings.
Paperback, 136 pages
Published
March 1st 1980
by University of Massachusetts Press
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Jackson's book is a collection of essays about geography, especially the man-made geography of gardens and streets. His discussion of the sacred grove, camp meeting sites in the woods, relates the rise in importance of sacred time over sacred space in Protestant revivalism. Now is the time of the salvation, it might happen anywhere. The end result is an individualizing and privatizing of faith (still a problem with evangelical Protestants today).
His discussion in the essay, "The Necessity for R...more
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A series of short essays by, in my opinion, the most profound landscape architect of all time. Jackson had an ability to remove arrogance from his understanding of human interaction with land. He truly saw people as an integral part of nature.
Fantastic read, great for ruminating on the role of ruins. What is their purpose and how do they enrich our landscape? I enjoy the argument that their presence illustrates the geography of mankind (man-made geography). Viva l'histoire!
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