The Routledge Companion to the American Landscape

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.

Foreword: Reading the Landscape Introduction: Twenty-first Century American Landscapes Part I: Environmental Landscapes: The American Environment 1 Changes Across Rural America: Agricultural Landscapes 2 Fluid Landscapes 3 Energy Landscapes 4 Wastescapes 5 Public Landscapes 6 American Landscapes of Environmental Injustice Part II: Social, Cultural, and Popular Identities in the American Landscape 7 "This is Not the America I Know": Reading the White Unseen Within the American Landscape 8 Gender, Sexuality, and Landscape 9 Ethnicity and Transnationalism 10 Interpreting the Landscapes of a New Religious America 11 The American Cinematic Landscape Inscribed @Work 12 Music and the American Landscape: Rhythms of Continuity and Change 13 Sports and the American Landscape 14 From Post-Scarcity Utopia to Zombie-Infested Hellscape: Continuity and Change in the Landscape of a Future North America Special Essay: Bridging Social and Political Landscapes: American Landscapes Under Siege: A Provocation Part III: US Political Landscapes 15 American Imperalism 16 Iconographic Landscapes of US Borders and Immigration Controls 17 (De)constructing the Grid: The Public Land Survey System and the Production of Abstract Space in the Early Republic 18 Landscape and Politics: The 2020 Presidential Election in the United States 19 America’s Contemporary Commemorative Landscapes: Themes and Practices in Memorial Mania 20 Place (Re)Naming 21 The Landscape of Incarceration in the United States Part IV: Urban and Economic Landscapes in the US 22 Urban Sustainability 23 The Ordinary-Extraordinary Automobile Landscape 24 Tourism in the American Landscape 25 The Changing Rural Landscape 26 Rooted in Place—Retail on the American Landscape 27 Post-Industrial Landscapes 28 Labor and the Changing Economic Landscape of the United States Afterword