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the number of rooms rising 78% since 1980”
(Time
, July 15, 1986, 45). On Studio Plus, see
WSJ
, January 24, 1996, B1; “Room Service
à l’Américain,” NYT
, October 3, 1997, D1; “Midlevel Hotels Look Abroad,”
NYT
, September 28, 1995, D1; “Marriott to Buy Renaissance Hotel Group,”
WSJ
, February 19, 1997, A3; “Marriott to Provide Long-Term Guests a New Economy-Priced Option,”
WSJ
, February 13, 1996, B7; “No Room in the Inn,”
WSJ
, December 13, 1996, B17; “Why Business Travel Is Such Hard Work,”
WSJ
, December 30, 1996, B1; “Pace of Business Travel Abroad Is Beyond Breakneck,”
WSJ
, May 31, 1996, B1; “Soon, Hotels Only a Boss Could Love,”
WSJ
, February 2, 1996, B7; and “High-Tech Hotels Try Homier Touches,”
WSJ
, March 29, 1996, B1.
    64. See J. B. Jackson, 1952 and 1956 essays in
Landscape in Sight
, pp. 333–39.
    65. For many, the dream of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the late-nineteenth-century American feminist, has been realized—the emptying of the home of all those matters that inhibit the individual freedom and flexibility of both sexes. On the spread of the goliath suburban homes, see “Suburbs’ Mass-Market Mansions,”
NYT
, March 18, 1998, B1.
    66. On the current European efforts to copy American “chain” hotel style and building, at the cost of abandoning older, more place-connected, traditions, see “Room Service
à l’Américain,” NYT
, October 3, 1997, D1, D4.
    67. Dan Mercer, “The Market for Mobile Homes,”
Housing Economics
, January 1995, 15.
    68. Virginia Held, “Home Is Where You Park It,”
The Reporter
, February 18, 1960, quoted in George S. Pierson,
The Moving American
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972), pp. 113–14; and Steinbeck,
Travels with Charley
, p. 97.
    69. Steinbeck,
Travels with Charley
, pp. 95–106.
    70. Dan Mercer, “The Market for Mobile Homes,”
Housing Economics
, January 1995, 17.
    71. Michael J. Ybarra, “Real Estate: Mobile Homes Zip Past Sales of Houses,”
WSJ
, August 29, 1994, B1; U.S. Department of Commerce, “Mobile Homes,” Bureau of Census statistical brief, May 1994; Mercer, “The Market for Mobile Homes,” 17, 1; and phone interview with Robert Bonnette, author of Department of Commerce’s “Mobile Homes,” July 20, 1995.
    72. See “Mobile Mansions Offer RV Market a Lift,”
WSJ
, January 8, 1998, B2; and “Six Days in a Rolling Home,”
BusinessWeek
, April 27, 1998, E2–4.
    73. John Brinckerhoff Jackson,
A Sense of Place, a Sense of Time
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994), p. 62.
    74.
Ibid.
, pp. 60–62.
    75. John Brinckerhoff Jackson,
Discovering the Vernacular Landscape
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984), p. 156.
    76. Jackson,
A Sense of Place
, p. 167.
    77. Quoted in D. W. Meinig, ed.,
The Interpretation of Ordinary Landscapes
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1979), pp. 232–33.
    78. Jackson,
Landscape in Sight
, pp. 201–5.
    79. Compare with Foucault’s “limit-experiences” (see James Miller,
The Passion of Michel Foucault
[New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993], pp. 30–35, 273–75).
    80. Quoted in Meinig,
The Interpretation of Ordinary Landscapes
, p. 94.
    81. Jackson,
Landscape in Sight
, pp. 175–82.
    82. Jackson,
A Sense of Place, a Sense of Time
, p. 10; see also Jackson,
Discovering the Vernacular Landscape
for similar comments, pp. 155–56.
    83. Quoted in Meinig,
The Interpretation of Ordinary Landscapes
, p. 222.
    84.
Ibid
.
    85. Jackson,
The Necessity for Ruins
(Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1980), pp. 125–26.
    86. Jackson,
Discovering the Vernacular Landscape
, pp. 100–101.
    87. Jackson,
Landscapes
(Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1970), pp. 152, 160.
    88.
Ibid
., p. 154.
    89. Jackson,
Discovering the Vernacular Landscape
, pp. 13–15.
    90. Jackson,
Landscapes
, p. 158.
    91.
Ibid.
, 158;
Discovering the Vernacular Landscapes
, pp. 110–12, 151–52.
    92.
Ibid.
, pp. 133–35.
    93.
Ibid.
, pp. 135–37.
    94. Jackson,
The Necessity