Endnotes1. In 1997 Alex MacLean's images formed a website on Fairfield and New Haven Counties for Hayden's Yale seminar, "The American Suburb"; in 1998 we added Guilford. In Fall 1998 Hayden 's seminar brought 20 students to Guilford to assess its history and potential for preservation. In May 1999, her talk for the annual meeting of the GPA , "1639 Meets 2000: Imagining Guilford in the 21st Century," included aerial photographs and was shown on Guilford Public TV for several months. This inspired the new website. 2. For an expanded definition, see Dolores Hayden, "The Sense of Place and the Politics of Space," in Paul Groth and Todd Bressi, eds., Understanding Ordinary Landscapes (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997): 111-133; and Arnold Alanen and Robert Melnick's forthcoming edited volume, Preserving Cultural Landscapes (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000). 3. Sue Clifford and Angela King, Local Distinctiveness (London: Common Ground, 1990). 4. Relatively few university classes teach these basic skills through departments of architecture, geography, or urban studies. 5. Randall Arendt, et. al., Rural by Design (Chicago, Planners Press, 1994); Anton Nelessen, Visions for a New American Dream (Chicago: Planners Press, 1994). 6. Beaumont Newhall, Airborne Camera: The World from the Air and Outer Space (New York: Hastings House, 1969) is a history of aerial photography. 7. A Danish example of urban design analysis using aerial images is Carsten Juel-Christiansen, Monument and Niche: The Architecture of the New City, (Copenhagen: Rhodos: 1985). 8. For a project of this kind in Chicago, see www.uic.edu/depts/ahaa/imagebase. 9. The town meeting form of government prevails, with a first selectman paid full time, and many volunteer commissions. Voters are divided pretty evenly between Democrats and Republicans, with a strong number of Independents. 10. Connecticut Town Profiles 1998-1999, (Hartford: Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development). (www.state.ct.us/ecd/research) 11. Nona Bloomer, The Guilford Green (Guilford, CT: Guilford Free Library, 1996):13. 12. Robert D. Yaro and Tony Hiss, A Region at Risk: The Third Regional Plan for the New York-New Jersey-Connecticut Metropolitan Area (Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1996) details many of the regional issues. 13. Jane Holtz Kay, Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took Over America and How We Can Take It Back (New York: Crown Books, 1997). 14. Master Plan for Preservation and Scenic Conservation, Town of Guilford, Connecticut, 1986, rev. ed. 1995, Patricia O'Donnell, ASLA, Principal, Landscapes Design, Westport, CT. 15.Connecticut Conservation and Development Policies Plan, 1998-2003 (Hartford, CT: Office of Policy and Management, 1998). 16. The Willoughby Wallace Memorial Library in Stony Creek, in Branford, Connecticut, mounted an excellent exhibit on quarry workers in 1999. 17. Le Corbusier, Aircraft: L'Avion accuse 1935 (London: Tretoil Publications Ltd., 1987): 12-13.
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