John Allais Jakle (born May 16, 1939)[1] is an American geographer. He is emeritus professor in the departments of geography and landscape architecture at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.[2]
Since 1996, Jakle has partnered with historic preservationist Keith Sculle, who worked for the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency,[8] on nine books on the material culture of the American automobile.[9] The "roadside America" books they have written include titles on gas stations, fast-food restaurants, motels, road signs, and parking lots.[10]
Jake served on the committee which advocated for the Ohio River to be declared a National Heritage Corridor.[11]
In 1958, Jakle married Cynthia Powell; they have two daughters.[1]
Books
With Stanley Brunn and Curtis Roseman Human Spatial Behavior: A Social Geography (Duxbury Press, 1976)
Images of the Ohio Valley: An Historical Geography of Travel, 1740-1860 (Oxford University Press, 1977)[14][15]
The American Small Town: Twentieth-Century Place Images (Archon Books, 1982)[16]
The Tourist: Travel in Twentieth-Century North America (University of Nebraska Press, 1985)[17]
The Visual Elements of Landscape (University of Massachusetts Press, 1987)[18][19]
With Robert Bastian and Douglas Meyer Common Houses in America's Small Towns: The Atlantic Seaboard to the Mississippi Valley (University of Georgia Press, 1989)[20]
With David Wilson Derelict Landscapes: The Wasting of America's Built Environment (Rowman & Littlefield, 1992)[21][22][23][24][25]
The Gas Station in America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994)[26][27]
with Keith A. Sculle and Jefferson Rogers The Motel in America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996)[28]
Fast Food Restaurants in the Automobile Age (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999)[29]
With Keith A. Sculle Lots of Parking Land Use in a Car Culture (University of Virginia Press, 2004)[30]
City Lights: Illuminating the American Night (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001)[31]
Postcards of the Night: Views of American Cities (Museum of New Mexico Press, 2003)[32]
With Keith A. Sculle Signs in America's Auto Age: Signatures of Landscape and Place (University of Iowa Press, 2004)[33]
My Kind of Midwest (University of Chicago Press, 2008)[34]
with Keith A. Sculle Motoring: The Highway Experience in America (University of Georgia Press, 2008)[35][36][37][38]
with Keith A. Sculle America's Main Street Hotels: Transiency and Community in the Early Auto Age (University of Tennessee Press, 2009)[39]
with Keith A. Sculle Remembering Roadside America: Preserving the Recent Past as Landscape and Place (University of Tennessee Press, 2011)[40]
with Keith A. Sculle Picturing Illinois: Twentieth-Century Postcard Art from Chicago to Cairo (University of Illinois Press, 2012)[41]
with Keith A. Sculle The Garage: Automobility and Building Innovation in America's Early Auto Age (University of Tennessee Press, 2013)[42]
with Keith A. Sculle Supplanting America's Railroads: The Early Auto Age, 1900-1940 (University of Tennessee Press, 2016)[43]
↑"Memories of Davenport Hall"(PDF). Department of Geography & Geographic Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Spring 2014. pp.1, 4.
↑Skelcher, Bradley (July 1993). "John A. Jakle and David Wilson, "Derelict Landscapes: The Wasting of America's Built Environment"". Journal of Historical Geography. 19 (3): 367–368. ProQuest1300174631.
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