U.S. Parks and protected areas: Origins, meanings and management

Historical Geography

Volumn 35, Issue , 2007, Pages 7-11

  Dilsaver, Lary ^a   Young, Terence ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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References (27)

1. The American Heritage College Dictionary 3rd edition. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1997), 993.
2. National Park Service, Frequently Asked Questions, www.nps.gov/faqs.htm; Darren L. Smith, Penny J. Hoffman, and Dawn B. Toth. Parks Directory of the United States, 3rd edition. (Detroit: Omnigraphics. Inc, 2001).
3. For more on one of these early English landscape designers, see Stephen Daniels, Humphry Repton: Landscape Gardening and the Geography of Georgian England (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999).
4. See Lisa M. Benton, The Presidio: From Army Post to National Park (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1998);
5. Judith L. Meyer, The Spirit of Yellowstone: The Cultural Evolution of a National Park (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 1996);
6. and Eugene J. Palka, "America's Accessible Wilderness: An Historical Geography of Denali National Park," Historical Geography 24(1995): 107-125.
7. For an insightful reading of one state park, see Dydia DeLyser, "Authenticity on the Ground: Engaging the Past in a California Ghost Town," Annals of the Association of American Geographers 89(1999): 602-632;
8. For a comparison of state park systems, see Langdon Smith, "The Democratization of Nature: State Park development during the New Deal," PhD. Dissertation, University of Kansas (2002), 236.
9. We refer to the instances of amusement parks, theme parks, trailer parks and industrial parks.
10. For more on the interactions between values and protected areas, see Thomas R. Vale, The American Wilderness: Reflections on Nature Protection in the United States (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2005;
11. and Terence Young, Building San Francisco's Parks, 1850-1930 (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004).
12. For more on conflicting notions of use, see Stanford Demars, The Tourist in Yosemite, 1955-1985 (Salt Lake Citt. University of Utah Press, 1991);
13. Lary Dilsaver, Cumberland Island Nationdl Seasbore: A History of Conservation Conflict (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2004);
14. and Ron Foresta, America's National Parks and Their Keepers (Washington, DC: Resources for the Future, 1984).
15. Some recent scholarship on US parks and social justice include Don Mitchell, "The End of Public Space? People's Park, Definitions of the Public and Democracy," Annals of the Association of American Geographers 85(1995): 108-133;
16. Stephanie Pinced and Elizabeth Gearin, "The Reinvention of Public Green Space," Urban Geography 26(2005): 365-384;
17. and, Jennifer Wolch, John P. Wilson and Jed Fehrenbach, "Parks and Park Funding in Los Angeles: An Equity-Mapping Analysis," Urban Geography 26(2005): 4-35.
18. The quote is from Robert David Sack, Human Territoriality:Its Theory and History (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986), 1.
19. Two early examples are Jacquelin Burgess, Carolyn M. Harrison and Melanie Limb, "People, Parks and the Urban Green: A Study of Popular Meanings and Values for Open Spaces in the City," Urban Studies 25(1988): 455-473;
20. and Karen Fog Olwig and Kenneth Olwig, "Underdevelopment and the Development of Natural' Park Ideology," Antipode 11 (1978): 16-25.
21. Much geographical work on sacred spaces is built upon the foundation erected by Mircea Lliade, especially his book, The Sacred and the Profane (New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1959), but a more postmodern, contested view can be found in John Eade and Michael J. Sallnow, Eds., Contesting the Sacred: The Anthropology of Christian Pilgrimage (New York: Routledge, 1991).
22. See also Yi-Fu Tuan,Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 1977);
23. and Chris Park, Sacred Worlds: An Introduction to Geography and Religion (New York: Routledge, 1994).
24. More specific explorations of US protected areas as sacred space can be found in David Chidester and Edward T. Linenthal, Eds., American Sacred Space (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995;
25. Thomas R. Dunlap, Faith in Nature: Environmentalism as Religious Quest (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2004);
26. Linda Graber, Wilderness as Sacred.Space (Washington: Association of American Geographers, 1976);
27. and John R. Sears, Sacred Places: American Tourist Attractoins in The Nineteenth Century (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989).