John Robert Stilgoe (born 1949) is a historian and photographer who is the Robert and Lois Orchard Professor in the History of Landscape at the Visual and Environmental Studies Department of Harvard University, where he has been teaching since 1977. He is also a fellow of the Society of American Historians. He was featured on a 60 Minutes episode in 2004 entitled “The Eyes Have It”.
Table of Contents
- 1 Biography
- 1.1 What Is Landscape? (The MIT Press)
- 1.2 Outside Lies Magic: Regaining History and Awareness in Everyday Places
- 1.3 Lifeboat
- 1.4 Common Landscape of America, 1580-1845
- 1.5 The Poetics of Space
- 1.6 Metropolitan Corridor: Railroads and the American Scene
- 1.7 Borderland: Origins of the American Suburb, 1820-1939
- 1.8 Train Time: Railroads and the Imminent Reshaping of the United States Landscape
- 1.9 Alongshore
- 1.10 Old Fields: Photography, Glamour, and Fantasy Landscape
- 1.11 More interesting reads:
Biography
Stilgoe was born in Norwell, Massachusetts in 1949. His daddy was a boatbuilder. He graduated from Boston University taking into account a B.A. in 1971, and from Purdue University past an M.A. in 1973. He entered Harvard’s Ph.D. program in American Civilizations in 1973, where he studied under J. B. Jackson, a landscape architect known for his studies of vernacular American landscapes.
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