John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

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2017     Picturing America : the golden age of pictorial maps by Stephen Hornsby; Heading out : a history of American camping by Terence Young
2016     The National Mall : no ordinary public space by Lisa Benton-Short
2015     Hispanic and Latino New Orleans : immigration and identity since the eighteenth century by Andrew Sluyter, Case Watkins, James P. Chaney and Annie M. Gibson
2014     America's public lands : from Yellowstone to Smokey Bear and beyond by Randall K. Wilson
2013     Mastering iron : the struggle to modernize an American industry, 1800-1868 by Anne Kelly Knowles
2012     Kansas City and how it grew, 1822-2011 by James "Pete" Shortridge
2011     Miami : mistress of the Americas by Jan Nijman
2010     Field guide to California agriculture by Paul F. Starrs and Peter Goin
2009     Stairway to empire : Lockport, the Erie Canal, and the shaping of America by Patrick McGreevy
2008     The American college town by Blake Gumprecht
2007     The future city on the inland sea : a history of imaginative geographies by Eric D. Olmanson
2006     Route 66 : iconography of the American highway by Arthur J. Krim
2005     An unnatural metropolis : wresting New Orleans from nature by Craig Colten
2004     The shaping of America : a geographical perspective on 500 years of history, volume 4 : global America, 1915-2000 by Donald W. Meinig
2003     New Orleans : the making of an urban landscape (2d ed.) by Peirce F. Lewis
2002     Tejano South Texas : a Mexican American cultural province by Daniel D. Arreola
2001     City lights : illuminating the American night by John A. Jakle
2000     George Perkins Marsh, prophet of conservation by David B. Lowenthal
1999     The Los Angeles River : its life, death, and possible rebirth by Blake Gumprecht
1998     The cotton plantation South since the Civil War by Charles S. Aiken
1997     Shadowed ground : America's landscapes of violence and tragedy by Kenneth E. Foote
1996     Main Street revisited : time, space, and image building in small town America by Richard Francaviglia
1995     An unspeakable sadness : the dispossession of the Nebraska Indians by David J. Wishart
1994     Living downtown : the history of residential hotels in the United States by Paul Groth
1993     Rocky Mountain divide : selling and saving the West by John B. Wright
1992     The cultural geography of the United States, revised & enlarged edition, by Wilbur Zelinsky