Landscapes of privilege

Landscapes of privilege

by James S. Duncan

2003

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Looks at how the aesthetics of physical landscapes are fully enmeshed in producing the American class system. Focusing on an archetypal upper class American suburb - Bedford in Westchester County, NY - shows how the physical presentation of a place carries with it a range of markers of inclusion and exclusion.