Overview

Providing a fascinating picture of North American landscapes through space and time, this richly illustrated album of essays reveals the allure, depth, texture, and variety of current geographical tools and philosophies. Developed in celebration of the 27th Congress of the International Geographical Union and Assembly, the volume features 93 essays written by contributors who represent a wide cross-section of the field. The book utilizes snapshot metaphors to focus on representative and symbolic points and lines of the North American landscape. Interpreting the continent in all of its diversity, points are represented by such places as Walden Pond and Mount St. Helens while lines include the Mississippi River, Route 66, and breadlines. Each of the ten sections offers a view from a different focus or scale--from wide-angle panoramic to portraits, close-ups, and time-lapse treatments, among others. In this way, each concise essay offers unusual insight into a particular site in North America and demonstrates the value and use of geographical methods and perspectives. Taken as a whole, the essays illustrate the range of theoretical, analytical, and descriptive approaches that are used by geographers to better understand human as well as physical geography.

Full Product Details

Author:   Donald G. Janelle
Publisher:   Guilford Publications
Imprint:   Guilford Publications
Dimensions:   Width: 22.20cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 27.90cm
Weight:   1.270kg
ISBN:  

9780898620306

ISBN 10:   0898620309
Pages:   442
Publication Date:   25 August 1992
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

"Part 1. Wide-angle Panoramic Views. E.M. Bjorklund, The Namerind Continent's Euro-American Transformation, 1600-1950. R.A. Rundstrom, Mapping the Inuit Ecumene of Arctic Canada. J.H. Galloway, The Lesser Antilles: A Southern Gateway. G. Clay, Crossing the American Grain. D.J. Zeigler, Main Streets of the Sunbelt: I-10 and I-20. A. Krum, Route 66: Auto River of the American West. G.M. MacDonald, K. Gajewski, The Northern Treeline of Canada. D.A. Robinson, The North American Snowline. Part 2. Filters and Lenses. R.W. Widdis, A Canadian Geographer's Perspective on the Canada-United States Border. J. Mercer, Urban Expressions of Cultural Duality. L.J. Evenden, D.E. Turbeville III, The Pacific Coast Borderline and Frontier. G.S. Elbow, The Overground Railroad: Central American Refugee Flows to Canada. F.P. Stutz, Maquiladora: Labor-Transport Cost Substitution Along the Border. G. Towers, The Urban Colonias of El Paso County, Texas. P.J. Gersmehl, The Hosmer Silt Loan in Montgomery County, Illinois, and American Farm Policy. M. Masucci, The Chesapeake Bay Bridge: Development Symbol for Maryland's Eastern Shore. D. Seamon, A Diary Interpretation of Place: Artist Frederic Church's Olana. Part 3. Positives and Negatives. B. Warf, Bankers' Nirvana and New Calcutta: New York in the 1980s. R.A. Harper, Metropolitan Points of Power and Problems in the United States. R. Harris, The Unplanned Blue-Collar Suburb in Its Heyday, 1900-1940. K. Christensen, White-collar Home-Based Work. J.E. Kodras, Breadlines. J.R. Wolch, Skid Row, USA: Place and Community. R. Riccio, Strolling the Strip: Prostitution in a North American City. S.L. Cutter, Technological Failures and Toxic Monuments. M.L. Shelton, Hydroclimate and Water Quality of Lake Tahoe. H.J. Gayler, Urban Sprawl and the Decline of the Niagara Fruit Belt. L.M. Dilsaver, Conflict in Yosemite Valley. W.L. Graf, The Grand Canyon Geographical Suite. Part 4. Double Exposures. A.R. Orme, The San Andreas Fault. R. Palm, The San Andreas Fault: Human Dimensions. P. McGreevy, The Meaning and the Making of Niagara Falls. K.J. Tinkler, Niagara Falls Gorge. R. Lougeay, A.J. Brazel, M.G. Marcus, Cirque and City Form Effects on Energy Distribution. S.J. Walsh, G.P. Malanson, D.R. Butler, Alpine Treeline in Glacier National Park, Montana. R.A. Muller, B.V. Fielding, Storm Hazards along Louisiana Coastlines. S. Baker, Coastal Storms in North Carolina. H. Margulis, East Asian Villages and Downtown Development. E.C. Kirchherr, Riverside and Pullman, Illinois: 19th Century Planned Towns. A.J. Lamme III, Callenge Points over Historic Perservation in Florida. Part 5. Time-Lapse. M.G. Winkler, Since the Retreat of the Ice Sheet: A Wisconsin Wetland. K. Liu, The Shifting Forest Ecotone in Postglacial Northern Ontario. J.E. Oliver, The ""Great American Desert"" and the Arid/Humid Boundary. H.J. Walker, W.E. Grabau, Mudlumps. A.G. Macpherson, The Strait of Belle Isle: North American Nexus in Time and Space. C.F.J. Whebell, The Grand Trunk Corridor in Ontario's Development, 1791-1986. S.W. Hardwick, Russian Religious Settlement along the Pacific Rim. I. Vasiliev, The Moscow Connection. E.K. Muller, The Point. B.M. Wilson, Birmingham, Alabama: America's Civil Rights Struggle. Part 6. Space-Lapse. V.H. Malmstrom, Pre-Columbian Alignments in the Yucatan: Edzna. A.K. Philbrick, Dimensional Regions of Coastal Maine. S.J. Stadler, G.O. Carney, M. Gregory, The Meridian of the Plains: A Natural Boundary in Oklahoma. D.J. Nemeth, The Dogleg at Frank's Cutacross. J.O. Wheeler, E. Wheeler, The Factory Outlet Mall. K.C. Parker, Vegetation Change along a Bajada Gradient. B. Klinkenberg, Biodiversity of the Lake Erie Archipelago. N.S. Lam, H. Qiu, The Fractal Nature of the Louisiana Coastline. M.P. Kumler, M.F. Goodchild, The Population Center of Canada--Just North of Toronto?!? Part 7. Icons. W.J. Gribb, Taos Pueblo's Struggle for Blue Lake. C.O. Collins, The Shine of Guadalupe. G. Rinschede, Catholic Pilgrimage Centers in Quebec. M. Steinitz, J.S. Wood, Walden. A.L. Rydant, K.J. Bayr, The Grand (Mount) Monadnock. D.E. Heath, From Barrier to Corridor: Transformation of the Appalachian Crestline. J.P. Radford, The Symbolic Center of Charleston, South Carolina. L.W. Mulligan, Sante Fe: Place of Style and Postmodern Transformation. W.R. Code, The Skyscraper: America's Building. Part 8. Portraits. C.L. Salter, The Geographic Truths in an American Intersection. B. Ryan, Sauntering along Evanswood. T.F. McIlwraith, The Fourth of Trafalgar: Continuity along the Ontario Country Road. C.W. Olmstead, Place and Point of View: Southwestern Wisconsin. K.B. Raitz, C. Murray-Wooley, Fence Lines on Kentucky's Bluegrass Landscape. B.A. Weightman, The Poor Person's Palm Springs: Quartzsite, Arizona. M.D. Winsberg, Fantasy Landscapes and the Creation of Walt Disney World, Florida. Part 9. Close-Ups/Zooming In. A.J. Orme, Mount St. Helens. R.I. Dorn, S.L. Clark, Spatial Organization in the Landforms of Death Valley. T.E. Ross, Carolina Bays: Lines and Points on the Atlantic Coastal Plain. A.J. Lewis, Linear Shell Reefs. D.W. Davis, Canals and the Southern Louisiana Landscape. W.E. Grabau, H.J. Walker, Levees. K.W. Muckleston, Grand Coulee Dam. D.L. Elliott-Fisk, T.L. Bulman, A.C. Noble, Viticulture and Wines of the Napa Valley. H.P. Schmidt, T.R. Oke, Scaling North American Urban Climates by Lines, Lanes, and Rows. L.S. Kalkstein, Heat-Related Mortality: What Might Happen in a Warmer World? Part 10. Moving Pictures. J.B. Campbell, B.C. Richardson, Hurricane Hugo's Trajectory. M.G. Marcus, A.J. Brazel, Summer Dust Storms in the Arizona Desert. A.D. Abrahams, A.J. Parsons, Overland Flow on Semiarid Arizona Hillslopes. H.M. Mayer, The St. Lawrence Seaway. H. Moon, The Interstate Highway System. E.W. Miller, The Pennsylvania Turnpike. J.M. Rubenstein, America's Just-in-Time Highways: I-65 and I-75. B. Holcomb, Finding America on the New Jersey Turnpike."

Reviews

While the nearly 100 contributors use different 'cameras, ' their collective lenses capture the volume's themes....The mosaic that unfolds will appeal to the scholar, the student, and those who relish new explorations. A distinctively original contribution to regional geography.' --Stanley D. Brunn, Professor and Editor, Annals of the Association of American Geographers Another will be able to dip into it at leisure and be constantly surprised by the novelty of subject, interpretation, and mode of communication that distinguishes contemporary geography. --Brian S. Osborne, Queen's University

.,. With that upwelling sense of challenge, the ninety-three snapshots do somehow resolve into a kinetic image. And one knows that the game, fun as it is, is more than a game. --Environment and Planning A <br>

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