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- catalog abstract "Americans have a love-hate relationship with their front yards. Great care is lavished on keeping contiguous lawns neatly clipped and otherwise providing a public facade that is a respectable ornament to the neighborhood. A multi-billion dollar industry supports their efforts. On the other hand, the American front yard has endured onslaughts from a multitude of critics for a century, including landscape architects and designers, journalists, environmentalists and millions of weary homeowners. How this unique landscape style came to be is the primary subject of Front Yard America. Because the style does not come from the mainstream of landscape architects, the author first explores the challenges of studying something so anonymous in origin that almost no one described it until it was so commonplace that everyone thought it always was there. The typical American front yard has not always been there: before 1870 fenced yards were the rule, by 1890, the barriers were down. The causes of this revolution in the popular domestic landscape are complex, and Schroeder's examination includes the first detailed history of lawn mower technology, as well as original hypotheses about the conversion of an aesthetic dictum into a national style. Although there are intersections with such theorists as A. J. Downing, the front lawn rationale turns out to be largely commercial, the realization of the design is technological, the diffusion from coast to coast is without direction - and the genesis is in two subdivisions of Toledo, Ohio. Throughout Front Yard America Schroeder inquires into the functions, values and meanings that Americans have found in the domestic landscapes of back yards and front yards, walls and fences, porches and patios. The final chapters speculate on the future of the American front yard in view of changing economic, social, environmental and aesthetic factors.".
- catalog alternative "Evolution and meanings of a vernacular domestic landscape.".
- catalog contributor b6218466.
- catalog coverage "United States Social life and customs.".
- catalog created "c1993.".
- catalog date "1993".
- catalog date "c1993.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1993.".
- catalog description "Americans have a love-hate relationship with their front yards. Great care is lavished on keeping contiguous lawns neatly clipped and otherwise providing a public facade that is a respectable ornament to the neighborhood. A multi-billion dollar industry supports their efforts. On the other hand, the American front yard has endured onslaughts from a multitude of critics for a century, including landscape architects and designers, journalists, environmentalists and millions of weary homeowners.".
- catalog description "Downing, the front lawn rationale turns out to be largely commercial, the realization of the design is technological, the diffusion from coast to coast is without direction - and the genesis is in two subdivisions of Toledo, Ohio.".
- catalog description "How this unique landscape style came to be is the primary subject of Front Yard America. Because the style does not come from the mainstream of landscape architects, the author first explores the challenges of studying something so anonymous in origin that almost no one described it until it was so commonplace that everyone thought it always was there.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-171).".
- catalog description "The philistine effect and other challenges in researching vernacular culture -- Learning about front yards from the critics -- Living in front yards and back yards -- The coming of the lawn mower -- Developing an aesthetic for the democratic front yard -- To practice as I preach : Auburndale and Scottwood -- As Toledo goes, so goes the nation -- Myths and anxieties -- Front yard futures : plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.".
- catalog description "The typical American front yard has not always been there: before 1870 fenced yards were the rule, by 1890, the barriers were down. The causes of this revolution in the popular domestic landscape are complex, and Schroeder's examination includes the first detailed history of lawn mower technology, as well as original hypotheses about the conversion of an aesthetic dictum into a national style. Although there are intersections with such theorists as A. J.".
- catalog description "Throughout Front Yard America Schroeder inquires into the functions, values and meanings that Americans have found in the domestic landscapes of back yards and front yards, walls and fences, porches and patios. The final chapters speculate on the future of the American front yard in view of changing economic, social, environmental and aesthetic factors.".
- catalog extent "171 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Front yard America.".
- catalog identifier "0879726350 (cloth)".
- catalog identifier "0879726369 (pbk.)".
- catalog identifier "9780879726355 (cloth)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Front yard America.".
- catalog isPartOf "Material culture series".
- catalog issued "1993".
- catalog issued "c1993.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University Popular Press,".
- catalog relation "Front yard America.".
- catalog spatial "United States Social life and customs.".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "712/.6/0973 20".
- catalog subject "Landscape gardening United States.".
- catalog subject "Lawns United States.".
- catalog subject "SB473 .S375 1993".
- catalog subject "Suburban homes United States.".
- catalog subject "Vernacular gardens.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The philistine effect and other challenges in researching vernacular culture -- Learning about front yards from the critics -- Living in front yards and back yards -- The coming of the lawn mower -- Developing an aesthetic for the democratic front yard -- To practice as I preach : Auburndale and Scottwood -- As Toledo goes, so goes the nation -- Myths and anxieties -- Front yard futures : plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.".
- catalog title "Evolution and meanings of a vernacular domestic landscape.".
- catalog title "Front yard America : the evolution and meanings of a vernacular domestic landscape / Fred E.H. Schroeder.".
- catalog type "text".