Abstract
E KNOW surprisingly little about the form and appearance of the vast majority of the cities and towns of North America. We know even less about the meaning of these phenomena in the cultural scheme of things. Although each of our major metropolises has generated its own iconography and body of writing-some of them quite masterly1-and although a corps of cultural geographers, distinctly rural in their leanings, have told us much about the look of the American countryside,2 systematic knowledge of the morphology of what lies between, some several thousand smaller cities and towns, remains exceedingly scrappy.3 But what we strongly suspect; or rather feel, and what is persistently expressed as a vigorous undercurrent in much of our best fiction and social science reportage on the American scene,4 is intimate interaction between townscape5 and the cultural
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