{"product_id":"the-camaro-in-the-pasture-robert-b-riley-9780813937151","title":"The Camaro in the Pasture: Speculations on the Cultural Landscape of America","description":"\u003cp\u003eRobert Riley has been a renowned figure in landscape studies for over fifty years, valued for his perceptive, learned, and highly entertaining articles, reviews, and essays. Much of Riley's work originally ran in \u003ci\u003eLandscape, \u003c\/i\u003e the pioneering magazine at which Riley succeeded the great geographer J. B. Jackson as editor. \u003ci\u003eThe Camaro in the Pasture\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book to collect this compelling author's writing. With diverse topics ranging from science-fiction fantasies to problems of academic design research, the essays in this volume cover an entire half-century of Riley's observations on the American landscape. The essays--several of which are new or previously unpublished--interpret changing rationales for urban beautification, the evolution and transformation of the strip, the development of a global landscape of golf and resorts replacing an older search for exoticism, and the vernacular landscape as wallpaper rather than quilt. Ultimately, Riley envisions our future landscape as a rapidly fluctuating electronic net draped over the more slowly changing and familiar land- and building-based system. Throughout, Riley emphasizes the vernacular landscape of contemporary America--how we have shaped and use it, what it is becoming, and, above all, how we experience it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert B. Riley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0813937159\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813937151\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 04\/13\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 184\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.70d","brand":"Robert B. Riley","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44756473872639,"sku":"9780813937151","price":39.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0ad7d7ec-fe80-4ee3-9521-4c5877231db0.jpg?v=1706593080","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-camaro-in-the-pasture-robert-b-riley-9780813937151","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}