Harvey K Flad
Biographic Data
| ID | 1686284 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Harvey K Flad |
| GIVEN NAMES | Harvey K |
| FAMILY NAME | Flad |
| SIGNATURE | FLAD H K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Syracuse University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Main Street to Mainframes
The Parlor in the Wilderness
Thirty years ago D. W. Meinig argued that certain landscapes “are part of the iconography of nationhood.” From the earliest European settlement, the North American “wilderness” forged the crucible that shaped U.S. culture. By the early nineteenth century romantic aesthetic theories and nationalistic patriotism influenced American perspectives on the emerging cultural landscape. Artists, writers, and travelers sought out places for their healthful…
Audubon Terrace, The American Geographical Society, and the Sense of Place
John Kirtland Wright, in his centennial history of the American Geographical Society (AGS), Geography in the Making: The American Geographical Society, 1851-1951 (1952), described geography as a highly diverse discipline, eclectic in focus and scope. Wright was the librarian of the AGS from 1920 until he became director in 1938, a position he held until 1949. He was also elected president of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) in 1946. …
Country Clutter
The landscape of rural America has been profoundly influenced by social, cultural, and economic changes. The rural roadscape is a visible text of these changes, and the transportation palimpsest a cultural text of the American ideal of mobility. This article briefly examines the growth of the presence of the automobile and the automobile's role in changing the face of rural America, with an emphasis on the aesthetics of the roadscape. In the late…
The Urban American Indians of Syracuse, New York
Country Clutter
The landscape of rural America has been profoundly influenced by social, cultural, and economic changes. The rural roadscape is a visible text of these changes, and the transportation palimpsest a cultural text of the American ideal of mobility. This article briefly examines the growth of the presence of the automobile and the automobile's role in changing the face of rural America, with an emphasis on the aesthetics of the roadscape. In the late…
The Urban American Indians of Syracuse, New York
The Urban American Indians of Syracuse, New York
Country Clutter
The landscape of rural America has been profoundly influenced by social, cultural, and economic changes. The rural roadscape is a visible text of these changes, and the transportation palimpsest a cultural text of the American ideal of mobility. This article briefly examines the growth of the presence of the automobile and the automobile's role in changing the face of rural America, with an emphasis on the aesthetics of the roadscape. In the late…
Audubon Terrace, The American Geographical Society, and the Sense of Place
John Kirtland Wright, in his centennial history of the American Geographical Society (AGS), Geography in the Making: The American Geographical Society, 1851-1951 (1952), described geography as a highly diverse discipline, eclectic in focus and scope. Wright was the librarian of the AGS from 1920 until he became director in 1938, a position he held until 1949. He was also elected president of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) in 1946. …
Main Street to Mainframes
The Parlor in the Wilderness
Thirty years ago D. W. Meinig argued that certain landscapes “are part of the iconography of nationhood.” From the earliest European settlement, the North American “wilderness” forged the crucible that shaped U.S. culture. By the early nineteenth century romantic aesthetic theories and nationalistic patriotism influenced American perspectives on the emerging cultural landscape. Artists, writers, and travelers sought out places for their healthful…
Geography (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Cultural landscape (2 works) · Environmental ethics (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Sociology (2 works)