6. The Visual Character of Chinatowns

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. 1. Frameworks for Cultural Landscape Study 1
5. Landscape Studies
6. 2. Visual Landscapes of a Streetcar Suburb 25
7. 3. Landscape and Archives as Texts 44
8. 4. Conflicting Landscape Values: The Santa Clara Pueblo and Day School 56
9. 5. Hallowed Grounds and Rituals of Remembrance: Union Regimental Monuments at Gettysburg 67
10. 6. The Visual Character of Chinatowns 81
11. 7. Where the One-Eyed Man Is King: The Tyranny of Visual and Formalist Values in Evaluating Landscapes 85
12. 8. Spectacle and Society: Landscape as Theater in Premodern and Postmodern Cities 99
13. 9. Urban Landscape History: The Sense of Place and the Politics of Space 111
14. 10. The Politics of Vision 134
15. 11. The Future of the Vernacular 145
16. Commentaries and Future Directions
17. 12. Seeing Beyond the Dominant Culture 157
18. 13. Unseen and Disbelieved: A Political Economist among Cultural Geographers 162
19. 14. Seen, Unseen, and Scene 174
20. 15. European Landscape Transformations : The Rural Residue 180
21. 16. The Integrity of the Landscape Movement 189
22. 17. The Visible, the Visual, and the Vicarious: Questions about Vision, Landscape, and Experience 200
23. Notes 211
24. Bibliography: Basic Works in Cultural Landscape Studies 243
25. Contributors 261
26. Index 265