{"product_id":"literature-of-place-melanie-simo-9780813925004","title":"Literature of Place: Dwelling on the Land Before Earth Day, 1970","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn a world that is increasingly reliant on science, technology, and virtual relationships, our reciprocal and intimate connection to place has often been overlooked. This concern is now at the forefront of debate among environmental planners and designers, who are asking: What is distinctive and memorable about a certain place? Who lives there--or once did? What are the impacts of metropolitan growth, sprawl, and the loss of family farms?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eLiterature of Place\u003c\/i\u003e Melanie Simo looks beyond crowded malls and boarded-up storefronts on Main Street to our collective memory, finding answers to these questions in stories, novels, memoirs, poetry, essays, diaries, travel writing, and nature writing that range in origin from New England and the Southern Highlands to Hawaii and in subject from little gardens to lost or reinhabited places in cities, mill towns, deserts, and woodlands. In her consideration of selected American works from 1890 to 1970--years that mark the closing of the Western frontier and later openings in space exploration, environmental protection, genetic engineering, and cyberspace--Simo uncovers a literature of place and the often-surprising relationship of place to our daily lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile the exploration of outerspace and cyberspace may now seem limitless, some planners and designers are rediscovering ways of building from an earlier time and reconsidering the importance of place. In \u003ci\u003eLiterature of Place\u003c\/i\u003e Simo furthers this movement by retrieving some common threads of attachment to place in works by John Steinbeck, Willa Cather, Henry James, Robert Frost, Wallace Stegner, Henry Beston, Rachel Carson, Loren Eiseley, Wendell Berry, J. B. Jason, Jane Jacobs, and others. By reconsidering works by such diverse and often surprisingly unknown writers, Simo seeks to broaden our understanding of place and stimulate the imagination of those who are creating and preserving memorable places in our time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA companion volume to \u003ci\u003eForest and Garden: Traces of Wilderness in a Modernizing Land, 1897-1949, Literature of Place \u003c\/i\u003ewill appeal to urban designers, architects, landscape architects, environmental planners, literary and social historians, and all who are concerned about the fate of places in an increasingly \"small\" and remotely controlled world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Melanie Simo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0813925002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813925004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Virginia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/07\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.88h x 6.32w x 1.01d","brand":"Melanie Simo","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47520297550079,"sku":"9780813925004","price":52.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_24204e18-80bf-483f-a7b9-a9ba392795ab.jpg?v=1762884742","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/literature-of-place-melanie-simo-9780813925004","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}