John A Jakle
Biographic Data
| ID | 283109 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John A Jakle |
| GIVEN NAMES | John A |
| FAMILY NAME | Jakle |
| SIGNATURE | JAKLE J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 47 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 92 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 47 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Car Country
Christopher W. Wells. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2013. xxxiv and 430 pp., maps, photos, diagrams, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $40.00 cloth (ISBN 978-0-295-99215-0)
Signs, Streets, and Storefronts
Journal Article Signs, Streets, and Storefronts: A History of Architecture and Graphics along America's Commercial Corridors Get access Signs, Streets, and Storefronts: A History of Architecture and Graphics along America's Commercial Corridors. By Martin Treu. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012. xii, 384 pp. $46.95.) John A. Jakle John A. Jakle University of IllinoisUrbana, Illinois [email protected] Search for other works by thi…
Rethinking a Lot
(2012). Rethinking a Lot: The Design and Culture of Parking. Eran Ben-Joseph. Urban Geography: Vol. 33, Comparative Urbanism, pp. 915-915
Tourism in the mountain south
Signs in motion
Only recently have scholars begun to study how signs structure and enable use of the humanized landscape. This paper proposes to advance this new subject further in taking up the category of signs that move. An historical review discloses wide application in public transit, private automobiles, commercial trucks, railroad rolling stock, state license plates, bumper stickers, marine transportation, clothing and tattoos. Most of the sources for thi…
Southern Journeys
Fast Food
Journal Article Fast Food: Roadside Restaurants in the Automobile Age. By John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. xvi, 394 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-80186109-8.) Get access Andrew Hurley Andrew Hurley University of Missouri, St. Louis, Missouri Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 4, March 2001, Pages 1576–1577, https://doi.org/…
America's Small Town/Big City Dialectic
The big city and small town have been stereotyped in the American experience as being at opposite ends of an imagined social gradient—the former more a place of cold impersonality in social relations and the latter more a place of warm personalized community. Assumptions about urban-based "mass society" largely blinded Americans through the twentieth century to the existence of, and importance of, locality-based community in big cities. Early in …
The New England Village
The Motel in America
The Gas Station in America
Why were early gas stations built to resemble English cottages and Greek temples? How does Teddy Roosevelt's busting of the Standard Oil Trust in 1911 relate to the lack of Exxon and Chevron stations in the Mid-west today? What corporate decisions and economic pressures lay behind the Bauhaus-inspired stations of the 1930s? What have gas stations symbolized in the American experience? Geographer John Jakle and historian Keith Sculle have teamed u…
The Gas Station in America
Beautiful Machine
Journal Article Beautiful Machine: Rivers and the Republican Plan, 1735–1825. By John Seelye. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. xii + 430 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-19-504551-3.) Get access John A. Jakle John A. Jakle University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 1, June 1993, Pages 249–250, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079737 Published: …
Derelict Landscapes
Landscape dereliction Underlying cultural values Deindustrialization Central city decline Abandoned neighbourhoods Rural decline Renaissance Community and the built environment
Views of American Landscapes
Journal Article Views of American Landscapes. Ed. by Mick Gidley and Robert Lawson-Peebles. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. xxiv + 227 pp. $39.50.) Get access John Jakle John Jakle University of Illinois, Urbana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 1, June 1991, Pages 278–279, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078105 Published: 01 June 1991
American Wanderlust
Borderland
The Tourist
Recreational Vehicles and Travel
Here is the first reference guide to the major sources for the study of recreational vehicles, boats, and aircraft in the context of American history and popular culture. It provides brief histories of the various types of vehicles and bibliographic essays on published and unpublished sources for further study. Reference works, histories, fiction, and specialized journals relating to the topic of recreational travel are described and analyzed. Ap…
The Tourist
The Architecture of Migration
Journal Article The Architecture of Migration: Log Construction in the Ohio Country, 1750–1850. By Donald A. Hutslar. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 1986. vii + 558 pp. $50.00.) Get access John A. Jakle John A. Jakle University of IllinoisUrbana-Champaign Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 73, Issue 2, September 1986, Page 466, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908260 Published: 01…
The Tourist
The Tourist
Journal Article The Tourist: Travel in Twentieth-Century North America Get access The Tourist: Travel in Twentieth-Century North America. By Jakle John A.. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1985. xiv + 382 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $24.95, cloth; $12.95, paper.) Ann Fabian Ann Fabian Yale University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 17, Issue 2,…
The Tourist
Journal Article The Tourist: Travel in Twentieth-Century North America. By John A. Jakle. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1985. xiv + 382 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $12.95.) Get access Warren Belasco Warren Belasco University of Maryland, Baltimore County Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 72, Issue 3, December 1985, Pages 717–718, https://do…
Twentieth Century Revival Architecture and The Gentry
This case study focuses on the 20th century revival houses of a Midwestern University city, Urbana, Illinois. English Revival houses are most closely associated with faculty families viewed as constituting a “gentry class” housed in a traditional “faculty row.” Other people (businessmen, managers, operatives and self-employed professionals) have occupied the Colonial Revival and Dutch Colonial houses and Cape Cod cottages. Initially, the Early Am…
Topophilia
Derelict Landscapes
Landscape dereliction Underlying cultural values Deindustrialization Central city decline Abandoned neighbourhoods Rural decline Renaissance Community and the built environment
The Changing Residential Structure of the Dutch Population in Kalamazoo, Michigan
The concept of acculturation, developed largely by anthropologists and sociologists, has not been sufficiently incorporated into geographical research on minority groups. One area in which the concept may be advantageously used is in the study of the origin and spatial evolution of ethnic neighborhoods in American cities. In pointing a way, this study analyses the changing residential patterns of the Dutch in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and relates thes…
The Gas Station in America
Why were early gas stations built to resemble English cottages and Greek temples? How does Teddy Roosevelt's busting of the Standard Oil Trust in 1911 relate to the lack of Exxon and Chevron stations in the Mid-west today? What corporate decisions and economic pressures lay behind the Bauhaus-inspired stations of the 1930s? What have gas stations symbolized in the American experience? Geographer John Jakle and historian Keith Sculle have teamed u…
Motel by the Roadside
The origins of the American motel are rooted in the traveler's use of the automobile. After 1910 the need for inexpensive overnight facilities convenient to the roadside led to the establishment of auto camps in the United States, especially in the West. In the East, the tourist home served a similar function. The highway traveler's rejection of the hotel (most hotels were located in congested downtowns and lacked adequate parking facilities) pro…
Touring by automobile in 1932 The American West as stereotype
Signs in motion
Only recently have scholars begun to study how signs structure and enable use of the humanized landscape. This paper proposes to advance this new subject further in taking up the category of signs that move. An historical review discloses wide application in public transit, private automobiles, commercial trucks, railroad rolling stock, state license plates, bumper stickers, marine transportation, clothing and tattoos. Most of the sources for thi…
America's Small Town/Big City Dialectic
The big city and small town have been stereotyped in the American experience as being at opposite ends of an imagined social gradient—the former more a place of cold impersonality in social relations and the latter more a place of warm personalized community. Assumptions about urban-based "mass society" largely blinded Americans through the twentieth century to the existence of, and importance of, locality-based community in big cities. Early in …
The Evolution of a Commercial Strip
This case study investigates the evolution of an arterial commercial strip along a previously residential street in a medium-sized American city. The hypothesis that gasoline stations and other automobile-oriented businesses first colonized the street on a block by block basis is supported. However, equally meaningful relationships between commercial land uses and shifts to multiple - family, absentee-owned housing are also examined as are the re…
Salt-Derived Place Names In The Ohio Valley
NINETEENTH CENTURIES settlers in the Ohio Valley found their salt supply a critical economic concern. Most pioneer farmers pursued a subsistence agriculture, but cattle-raising as a commercial endeavor was equally important. Through the sale of beef or pork, either salted or on the hoof, the western farmer obtained cash to purchase powder, iron goods, and other necessities and to pay his annual tax bill as well. Yet without adequate salt livestoc…
Signs, Streets, and Storefronts
Journal Article Signs, Streets, and Storefronts: A History of Architecture and Graphics along America's Commercial Corridors Get access Signs, Streets, and Storefronts: A History of Architecture and Graphics along America's Commercial Corridors. By Martin Treu. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012. xii, 384 pp. $46.95.) John A. Jakle John A. Jakle University of IllinoisUrbana, Illinois [email protected] Search for other works by thi…
The Tourist
Journal Article The Tourist: Travel in Twentieth-Century North America. By John A. Jakle. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1985. xiv + 382 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $12.95.) Get access Warren Belasco Warren Belasco University of Maryland, Baltimore County Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 72, Issue 3, December 1985, Pages 717–718, https://do…
Twentieth Century Revival Architecture and The Gentry
This case study focuses on the 20th century revival houses of a Midwestern University city, Urbana, Illinois. English Revival houses are most closely associated with faculty families viewed as constituting a “gentry class” housed in a traditional “faculty row.” Other people (businessmen, managers, operatives and self-employed professionals) have occupied the Colonial Revival and Dutch Colonial houses and Cape Cod cottages. Initially, the Early Am…
Roadside Restaurants and Place-Product-Packaging
With roots in the cafe, diner and tea room, various kinds of roadside restaurants evolved after 1920: roadside stands, highway coffee shops, drive-ins, outdoor walk-ups and indoor walk-ups. Together they came to represent a distinctive kind of place along the American roadside. Large corporations came to dominate highway-oriented restaurants after 1960 through “place-product-packaging”: the coordination of building design, decor, menu, service an…
Americans on the Road
During the early twentieth century more and more Americans not only acquired automobiles, but took to the road as tourists and crosscountry travelers.Warren Belasco's account of the evolution of the modern motel chronicles a progression of economic and social attitudes culminating in the post-World War II rise of the franchised chain.Yet the Holiday Inn concept did not spring from the mind of Kemmons Wilson like Venus from the head of Zeus.Rather…
A comparative atlas of America's great cities
New York
Salt on the Ohio Valley Frontier, 1770–1820 1
Salt, available at natural springs, seasonally attracted great herds of bison which through years of repetitious movement carved an extensive system of buffalo traces: avenues used by Anglo-Americans in settling portions of the Ohio Valley. Frontier settlement concentrated in areas of salt availability as the vital dietary element proved necessary to sustain livestock and to prepare meats, thus providing the frontier farmer with an export commodi…
Salt-Derived Place Names In The Ohio Valley
NINETEENTH CENTURIES settlers in the Ohio Valley found their salt supply a critical economic concern. Most pioneer farmers pursued a subsistence agriculture, but cattle-raising as a commercial endeavor was equally important. Through the sale of beef or pork, either salted or on the hoof, the western farmer obtained cash to purchase powder, iron goods, and other necessities and to pay his annual tax bill as well. Yet without adequate salt livestoc…
The Dutch in Kalamazoo, Michigan
Salt on the Ohio Valley Frontier, 1770–1820 1
Salt, available at natural springs, seasonally attracted great herds of bison which through years of repetitious movement carved an extensive system of buffalo traces: avenues used by Anglo-Americans in settling portions of the Ohio Valley. Frontier settlement concentrated in areas of salt availability as the vital dietary element proved necessary to sustain livestock and to prepare meats, thus providing the frontier farmer with an export commodi…
The Changing Residential Structure of the Dutch Population in Kalamazoo, Michigan
The concept of acculturation, developed largely by anthropologists and sociologists, has not been sufficiently incorporated into geographical research on minority groups. One area in which the concept may be advantageously used is in the study of the origin and spatial evolution of ethnic neighborhoods in American cities. In pointing a way, this study analyses the changing residential patterns of the Dutch in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and relates thes…
Topophilia
Guide to the history of cartography
New York
Public space
Chicago's landmark structures
The American Environment
The American Gasoline Station, 1920 to 1970
A comparative atlas of America's great cities
America's forgotten architecture
Images of the Ohio Valley
Journal Article Images of the Ohio Valley: A Historical Geography of Travel, 1740 to 1860. By John A. Jakle. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1977. viii + 217 pp. Maps, illustrations, chart, tables, appendix, notes, selected bibliography, and index. Cloth, $12.50; paper, $6.00.) Get access Donald Zimmer Donald Zimmer Tri-State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volum…
This land of ours
Images of the Ohio Valley
Journal Article Images of the Ohio Valley: A Historical Geography of Travel, 1740–1860 Get access Images of the Ohio Valley: A Historical Geography of Travel, 1740–1860. By Jakle John A.. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1977. viii, 217 p. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $12.50, cloth; $6.00, paper.) James H. Madison James H. Madison Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Sc…
Motel by the Roadside
The origins of the American motel are rooted in the traveler's use of the automobile. After 1910 the need for inexpensive overnight facilities convenient to the roadside led to the establishment of auto camps in the United States, especially in the West. In the East, the tourist home served a similar function. The highway traveler's rejection of the hotel (most hotels were located in congested downtowns and lacked adequate parking facilities) pro…
The Evolution of a Commercial Strip
This case study investigates the evolution of an arterial commercial strip along a previously residential street in a medium-sized American city. The hypothesis that gasoline stations and other automobile-oriented businesses first colonized the street on a block by block basis is supported. However, equally meaningful relationships between commercial land uses and shifts to multiple - family, absentee-owned housing are also examined as are the re…
Touring by automobile in 1932 The American West as stereotype
Americans on the Road
During the early twentieth century more and more Americans not only acquired automobiles, but took to the road as tourists and crosscountry travelers.Warren Belasco's account of the evolution of the modern motel chronicles a progression of economic and social attitudes culminating in the post-World War II rise of the franchised chain.Yet the Holiday Inn concept did not spring from the mind of Kemmons Wilson like Venus from the head of Zeus.Rather…
Roadside Restaurants and Place-Product-Packaging
With roots in the cafe, diner and tea room, various kinds of roadside restaurants evolved after 1920: roadside stands, highway coffee shops, drive-ins, outdoor walk-ups and indoor walk-ups. Together they came to represent a distinctive kind of place along the American roadside. Large corporations came to dominate highway-oriented restaurants after 1960 through “place-product-packaging”: the coordination of building design, decor, menu, service an…
Twentieth Century Revival Architecture and The Gentry
This case study focuses on the 20th century revival houses of a Midwestern University city, Urbana, Illinois. English Revival houses are most closely associated with faculty families viewed as constituting a “gentry class” housed in a traditional “faculty row.” Other people (businessmen, managers, operatives and self-employed professionals) have occupied the Colonial Revival and Dutch Colonial houses and Cape Cod cottages. Initially, the Early Am…
The American Small Town
The Tourist
Journal Article The Tourist: Travel in Twentieth-Century North America. By John A. Jakle. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1985. xiv + 382 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $12.95.) Get access Warren Belasco Warren Belasco University of Maryland, Baltimore County Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 72, Issue 3, December 1985, Pages 717–718, https://do…
The Tourist
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