The Routledge Companion to the American Landscape

Foreword: Reading the Landscape

Richard H. Schein

Introduction: Twenty-first Century American Landscapes

Chris W. Post, Alyson L. Greiner, and Geoffrey L. Buckley

　Part I: Environmental Landscapes: The American Environment

Geoffrey L. Buckley

1. Changes Across Rural America: Agricultural Landscapes

Lisa M. Butler Harrington and Chris R. Laingen

2. Fluid Landscapes

Craig E. Colten

3. Energy Landscapes

Brian C. Black

4. Wastescapes

Martin V. Melosi

5. Public Landscapes

Randall K. Wilson and Yolonda Youngs

6. American Landscapes of Environmental Injustice

Ryan Holifield

Part II: Social, Cultural, and Popular Identities in the American Landscape

Alyson L. Greiner

7. "This is Not the America I Know": Reading the White Unseen Within the American Landscape

Aretina R. Hamilton

8. Gender, Sexuality, and Landscape

Christina E. Dando

9. Ethnicity and Transnationalism

Emily Skop and Stephen Cho Suh

10. Interpreting the Landscapes of a New Religious America

Samuel Avery-Quinn

11. The American Cinematic Landscape Inscribed @Work

Chris Lukinbeal

12. Music and the American Landscape: Rhythms of Continuity and Change

David J. Keeling and Thomas L. Bell

13. Sports and the American Landscape

John Lauermann

14. From Post-Scarcity Utopia to Zombie-Infested Hellscape: Continuity and Change in the Landscape of a Future North America

Fiona Davidson

Special Essay: Bridging Social and Political Landscapes: American Landscapes Under Siege: A Provocation

Joshua Inwood and Derek H. Alderman

Part III: US Political Landscapes

Chris W. Post

15. American Imperialism

Barney Warf

16. Iconographic Landscapes of US Borders and Immigration Controls

Kenneth D. Madsen

17. (De)constructing the Grid: The Public Land Survey System and the Production of Abstract Space in the Early Republic

Timothy G. Anderson

18. Landscape and Politics: The 2020 Presidential Election in the United States

Fred M. Shelley and Heather Hollen

19. America’s Contemporary Commemorative Landscapes: Themes and Practices in Memorial Mania

Erika Doss

20. Place (Re)Naming

Jordan P. Brasher

21. The Landscape of Incarceration in the United States

Matthew L. Mitchelson

Part IV: Urban and Economic Landscapes in the US

Chris W. Post

22. Urban Sustainability

Lisa Benton-Short and Melissa Keeley

23. The Ordinary-Extraordinary Automobile Landscape

Ellen Hostetter

24. Tourism in the American Landscape

Velvet Nelson

25. The Changing Rural Landscape

Andrew Husa

26. Rooted in Place—Retail on the American Landscape

Emily Fekete

27. Post-Industrial Landscapes

Mark Alan Rhodes II and Sarah Fayen Scarlett

28. Labor and the Changing Economic Landscape of the United States

Andrew Herod

29. Afterword

Bill Wyckoff

Biography

Chris W. Post is Professor of Geography at Kent State University at Stark.

Alyson L. Greiner is Professor and Head of Geography at Oklahoma State University.

Geoffrey L. Buckley is Professor of Geography and Interim Associate Dean, Ohio Honors Program, Honors Tutorial College, Ohio University.

"The remarkable volume brings together some of the most thoughtful, insightful scholars of the American landscape in a book that provides a revealing portrait into the vitality and relevance of landscape study. The book is full of thought-provoking insights into the changing American scene. It serves as a powerful reminder of why ‘reading the landscape’ is such a valuable component of efforts to understand the cultural, social, and political world we inhabit."

Alec Murphy, University of Oregon, USA.