Landscapes of Privilege

The Politics of the Aesthetic in an American Suburb

• Author(s): Nancy Duncan,
• Publisher: Routledge
• Pages: 276
• ISBN_10: 1135939284
  ISBN_13: 9781135939281
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Architecture / Landscape , Nature / Ecology , Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection , Political Science / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development , Social Science / Customs & Traditions , Social Science / Sociology / General , Social Science / Sociology / Urban ,

Description:... James and Nancy Duncan look at how the aesthetics of physical landscapes are fully enmeshed in producing the American class system. Focusing on an archetypal upper class American suburb-Bedford in Westchester County, NY-they show how the physical presentation of a place carries with it a range of markers of inclusion and exclusion.