Landscape Ugliness of Edge Cities, 1982/1991

Containers:

Box 6, Folder 7

Scope and content:

Documents about the effects of Edge Cites on the landscape. Material includes an article from Landscape Magazine "Facing Up to Ambiguity" by Peirce Lewis, notes, a newspaper article about developers in Historic Waterford, VA, a transcript of an article by Peirce Lewis, Washington Post articles "Hatcheries: The Buffers Between Rock, Hard Place" by Angus Phillips and "Back To Eden: Images From The Landscape of The Imagined" by Henry Allen, a magazine article "Personal History Impalpable Dust" by M.R. Montgomery, a letter to Garreau from Susan Sharpe about an essay on landscape, Newsweek articles "Are Cities Obsolete?" by Tom Morganthau and John McCormick and "Reversal of Fortune" by Bill Turque and a booklet "Axioms For Reading the Landscape" by Peirce Lewis. Also included are a number of book reviews of "Borderland: Origins of The American Suburb" by John R. Stilgoe, "William Wordsworth: A Life" by Stephen Gill, "Great Plains" by Ian Frazier, "Placeways: A Theory of the Human Environment" by Eugene Victor Walter, "The Architect of Exile" by Stanley Tigerman and "Idea of a Town: The Anthropology of Urban Form in Rome, Italy and the Ancient World" by Joseph Rykwert. Theory

Access and use