John A. Jakle

John A. Jakle
Born
John Allais Jakle

(1939-05-16) May 16, 1939
Terre Haute, Indiana, U.S.
Occupations
Spouse
Cynthia A. Jakle
​
(m. 1958)​
Children2
Awards
  • J. B. Jackson prize
  • H.H. Douglas Award

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]

Early life and education

Jakle was born in 1939 in Terre Haute, Indiana,[3] though he grew up in Michigan. He graduated from Culver Military Academy.[4]

In 1961, Jakle graduated from Western Michigan University where he majored in Geography and Marketing.[5] He received an MA from Southern Illinois University 1963 and a PhD from Indiana University in 1967.[6]

Career

From 1965 to 1966, Jakle taught at the University of Maine. From 1966 to 1967, he taught at Western Michigan University.[1] He then joined the geography faculty at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He was the department head from 1990 to 1994.[7] He became professor emeritus in 2002.[1]

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] They have written books 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]

Awards and honors

In 2001, Jakle was awarded the J.B Jackson prize of the American Association of Geographers for his book City Lights.[12]

In 2004, Jakle received the H.H. Douglas Award of the International Society for Landscapes, Place, & Material Culture.[13]

Personal life

In 1958, Jakle married Cynthia Powell and 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]

References

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  2. ^ "John A. Jakle". Georgia Press. Retrieved 2025-12-07.
  3. ^ "Illinois Center for the Book -- Illinois Authors -- Individual Author Record". www.illinoisauthors.org.
  4. ^ Jakle, John A. (September 1, 1993). "Toward a Geographical History of Indiana: Landscape and Place in the Historical Imagination". Indiana Magazine of History – via scholarworks.iu.edu.
  5. ^ https://files.wmich.edu/s3fs-public/attachments/2001-1998.pdf
  6. ^ "Indiana authors and their books 1967-1980". webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu. Retrieved 2025-12-07.
  7. ^ https://ggis.illinois.edu/system/files/inline-files/GGIS-Spring2014newsletter.pdf
  8. ^ "Historical and cultural geographer ponders Main Street hotels, the Midwest – News Bureau".
  9. ^ Seely, Bruce (2020). "John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle, Supplanting America's Railroads: The Early Auto Age, 1900–1940". The Journal of Transport History. 41: 118–120. doi:10.1177/0022526619889313.
  10. ^ "Two new books examine history, meaning of roadside signs, parking lots – News Bureau".
  11. ^ "The Kent State University Press » John Jakle".
  12. ^ "AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize". AAG. Retrieved 2025-12-07.
  13. ^ "PAS:APAL | Pioneer America Society : Association for the Preservation of Artifacts and Landscapes". www.pioneeramerica.org. Retrieved 2025-12-07.
  14. ^ "Johan A. Jakle, "Images of the Ohio Valley: A Historical Geography of Travel, 1740 to 1860" (Book Review) - ProQuest". Proquest. Retrieved 2025-12-07.
  15. ^ Madison, James H. (January 1, 1979). "Images of the Ohio Valley: A Historical Geography of Travel, 1740–1860". Western Historical Quarterly. 10 (1): 73. doi:10.2307/967136. JSTOR 967136 – via Silverchair.
  16. ^ Berger, Michael L. (February 5, 1983). "The American Small Town: Twentieth-Century Place Images by John A. Jakle (review)". Technology and Culture. 24 (2): 279–280. doi:10.2307/3104056. JSTOR 3104056 – via Project MUSE.
  17. ^ Mulvey, Christopher (December 2, 1987). "John A. Jakle, The Tourist: Travel in Twentieth-Century North America (Lincoln & London: University of Nebraska Press, 1985, $12.95). Pp. 382. ISBN 0 80321 7561 7". Journal of American Studies. 21 (3): 457–458. doi:10.1017/S0021875800023124 – via Cambridge University Press.
  18. ^ https://www.proquest.com/openview/ef50c4f76f886c9cf1db3a90197de6d5/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=1819604
  19. ^ Groth, Paul (March 20, 1988). "The Visual Elements of Landscape". Landscape Journal. 7 (1): 73–75. doi:10.3368/lj.7.1.73 – via lj.uwpress.org.
  20. ^ Herman, Bernard L. (February 2, 1991). "Book Review: Common Houses in America's Small Towns: The Atlantic Seaboard to the Mississippi Valley, by John A. Jakle, Robert W. Bastian, and Douglas K. Meyer". Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography: 269–271 – via journals.psu.edu.
  21. ^ https://www.proquest.com/openview/7d5bbcbe7abe4711d00e91dff36f6b9e/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=1819604
  22. ^ "Book Reviews". The Professional Geographer. 45 (2): 223–249. May 1, 1993. doi:10.1111/j.0033-0124.1993.00223.x – via Taylor and Francis+NEJM.
  23. ^ "Book Reviews". Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 83 (4): 718–751. December 1, 1993. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8306.1993.tb01962.x – via Taylor and Francis+NEJM.
  24. ^ Lamme, Ary J. (1993). "Review of Derelict Landscapes: The Wasting of America's Built Environment". Geographical Review. 83 (3): 343–345. doi:10.2307/215743. ISSN 0016-7428.
  25. ^ Trettin, Lillian D. (June 5, 1993). "Derelict Landscapes: The Wasting of America's Built Environment. By John A. Jakle and David Wilson". Environmental History Review. 17 (2): 100–101. doi:10.2307/3984861 – via journals.uchicago.edu (Atypon).
  26. ^ Hine, Thomas (October 30, 1994). "UNIVERSITY PRESSES; Gasoline Dreams". The New York Times – via NYTimes.com.
  27. ^ Jackson, Donald C. (February 2, 1995). "The Gas Station in America by John A. Jakle, Keith A. Sculle (review)". Technology and Culture. 36 (4): 1044–1045 – via Project MUSE.
  28. ^ Shaffer, Marguerite S. (February 1, 1998). "Review: The Motel in America, by John A. Jakle, Keith A. Sculle, and Jefferson S. Rogers". Pacific Historical Review. 67 (1): 141–143. doi:10.2307/3642084. JSTOR 3642084 – via online.ucpress.edu.
  29. ^ Marling, Karal Ann (January 9, 2000). "Sameness Is Glorious". The New York Times – via NYTimes.com.
  30. ^ Lots of Parking: Land Use in a Car Culture. October 21, 2015. ISBN 978-0-8139-2519-6 – via www.upress.virginia.edu.
  31. ^ Wollner, Craig (January 2, 2002). "City Lights: Illuminating the American Night. ByJohn Jakle. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. x + 292 pp. Index, notes, illustrations, tables. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN 0–801–86593-X". Business History Review. 76 (4): 866–868. doi:10.2307/4127719. JSTOR 4127719 – via Cambridge University Press.
  32. ^ "Postcards of the Night: Views of American Cities - ProQuest". www.proquest.com. ProQuest 200605129.
  33. ^ Marling, Karal Ann (March 1, 2005). "Signs in America's Auto Age: Signatures of Landscape and Place. By John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle. (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2004. xxxiv, 219 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-87745-889-8. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-87745-890-1.)". Journal of American History. 91 (4): 1538–1539. doi:10.2307/3660315. JSTOR 3660315 – via Silverchair.
  34. ^ Luebbering, Candice (October 1, 2010). "My Kind of Midwest: Omaha to Ohio". Journal of Cultural Geography. 27 (3): 386–387. doi:10.1080/08873631.2010.519469 – via www.tandfonline.com.
  35. ^ Franz, Kathleen (February 2, 2009). "Motoring: The Highway Experience in America (review)". Technology and Culture. 50 (1): 234–235. doi:10.1353/tech.0.0223 – via Project MUSE.
  36. ^ Sultana, Selima (March 31, 2010). "A Review of "Motoring: The Highway Experience in America"". The Professional Geographer. 62 (2): 290–292. Bibcode:2010ProfG..62..290S. doi:10.1080/00330121003600892.
  37. ^ Stanger, Howard R. (January 2, 2008). "Motoring: The Highway Experience in America. By John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2008. xiii + 274 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN: 978–0–820–33028–0". Business History Review. 82 (4): 865–867. doi:10.1017/S0007680500063327 – via Cambridge University Press.
  38. ^ Tyson, Jackie Horlbeck (2010). "Reviewed work: Motoring: The Highway Experience in America, John A. Jakle, Keith A. Sculle". Material Culture. 42 (2): 98–100. JSTOR 29764591.
  39. ^ Wood, Alessandra (2011). "John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle. America's Main Street Hotels: Transiency and Community in the Early Auto Age . Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2009. 217 pp.; 70 black-and-white illustrations, notes, index. $29.95 (Paper)". Winterthur Portfolio. 45: 94–96. doi:10.1086/659054.
  40. ^ Dedek, Peter B. (August 1, 2012). "Remembering roadside America: preserving the recent past as landscape and place". Journal of Tourism History. 4 (2): 226–228. doi:10.1080/1755182X.2012.697616 – via Taylor and Francis+NEJM.
  41. ^ Sonnichsen, Tyler (2016). "Reviewed work: Picturing Illinois: Twentieth-Century Postcard Art from Chicago to Cairo, John A. Jakle, Keith A. Sculle". Material Culture. 48 (2): 110–112. JSTOR 44507794.
  42. ^ Rowley, Rex J. (October 2, 2016). "The garage: automobility and building innovation in America's early auto age". Social & Cultural Geography. 17 (7): 984–986. doi:10.1080/14649365.2016.1154127 – via Taylor and Francis+NEJM.
  43. ^ Seely, Bruce (June 1, 2020). "John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle, Supplanting America's Railroads: The Early Auto Age, 1900–1940". The Journal of Transport History. 41 (1): 118–120. doi:10.1177/0022526619889313 – via SAGE Journals.
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