The Poetics Of Space

By John R. Stilgoe, Gaston Bachelard, M. Jolas

A beloved multidisciplinary treatise comes to Penguin Classics Since its initial publication in 1958, The Poetics of Space has been a muse to philosophers, architects, writers, psychologists, criti...

What Is Landscape?

By John R. Stilgoe, Stilgoe, John R., 1949-

A lexicon and guide for discovering the essence of landscape.“Mr. Stilgoe does not ask that we take his book outdoors with us; he believes that reading and experiencing landscapes are activities th...

What Is Landscape?

By John R. Stilgoe, Stilgoe, John R., 1949-

A lexicon and guide for discovering the essence of landscape.“Mr. Stilgoe does not ask that we take his book outdoors with us; he believes that reading and experiencing landscapes are activities th...

Metropolitan Corridor: Railroads And The American Scene

By John R. Stilgoe

An engaging and delightfully illustrated account of the impact of railroads on the American built environment and on American culture from the last decades of the nineteenth century to the 1930's.

Common Landscape Of America, 1580-1845

By Timothy L. Fort, John R. Stilgoe

“A first-rate introduction to a still largely extant North America away from the great cities. This 400-page documentary by a dedicated exploring scholar explains how and why the landscape changed...

Metropolitan Corridor: Railroads And The American Scene

By John R. Stilgoe

An engaging and delightfully illustrated account of the impact of railroads on the American built environment and on American culture from the last decades of the nineteenth century to the 1930s....

Borderland: Origins Of The American Suburb, 1820-1939

By John R. Stilgoe, Stilgoe, John R., 1949-

A fascinating prehistory of the American suburb, from its beginnings in the mid-1800s to the onset of World War II. Using a rich array of contemporary written and pictorial sources, prize-winning h...

Borderland

By John R. Stilgoe

Alongshore

By John R. Stilgoe

Along the shore are fishing boats and lighthouses, wharves and piers, resorts and shipwrecks - picturesque vistas that are visited and photographed but have never before been scrutinized from a his...

Outside Lies Magic

By John R. Stilgoe

"Outside Lies Magic is a book about the acute observation of ordinary things, about becoming aware in everyday places, about seeing in utterly new ways, about enriching your life unexpectedly." "Fo...