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Fifteen essays examine, within the context of current issues, change as it occurs in rural America and clarify the effects of social, economic, cultural, and technological processes on the ways in which the landscape is organized and used.

The author views landscaping as an expression of a way of life. This collection of essays is written for the general reader and features articles without footnotes. The subject matter ranges from disquisitions on ordinary houses, yards, farms, and farmsteads to notes on ecology and from the impact of automobile use, mobile homes, shopping centers, and rural and urban planning to philosophical arguments about the meaning of human space and arguments for and against preservation.