Selected Publications of Arnold R. Alanen

Scholarly Books

Alanen, Arnold R. and Robert Z. Melnick, eds. 2000. Preserving Cultural Landscapes in America . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 250 pp.

Alanen, Arnold R. and Joseph A. Eden. 1987. Main Street Ready Made: The New Deal Community of Greendale , Wisconsin . Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin , 157 pp.

Textbooks and Field Guides

Ingwersen, Faith, Arnold R. Alanen, et al. 2002. Nordic Immigration to North America . Madison, WI: Nordic Cultural Curriculum Project, 69 pp.

Alanen, Arnold R. 2000. Pines, Lakes, & Mines: A Fieldguide to the Cultural Landscapes and Architecture of Northeastern Minnesota . Madison: Vernacular Architecture Forum, 267pp.

Alanen, Arnold R., with Berit C. Kaae and Salvor Jonsdottir. 1995. Nordic Environment: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Madison: Nordic Cultural Curriculum Project, 48 pp.

Reviewed Articles and Book Chapters

Alanen, Arnold R. and Carolyn Torma. 2004. “Finnish Architecture.” In Encyclopedia of the Great Plains . David Wishert, ed. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, p. 79.

Alanen, Arnold R. and Holly Smith. 2002. “Of Time and a River: Documenting and Managing a Cultural Landscape at Sitka National Historical Park in Alaska.” In Proceedings of the American Society of Landscape Architects. Washington, D.C: ASLA.

Alanen, Arnold R. 2001. "Peets, Elbert." In Chicago Botanic Garden Encyclopedia of Gardens: History and Design, Vol. 3 C. Shoemaker, ed. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, pp. 1016-18.

Alanen, Arnold R. and Lynn Bjorkman, 2001. "Manning, Warren H." In Chicago Botanic Garden Encyclopedia of Gardens History and Design, Vol. 2. C. Shoemaker, ed. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, pp. 847-48.

Bjorkman, Lynn and Arnold R. Alanen. 2001. "Bullard, Helen Elise." In Chicago Botanic Garden Encyclopedia of Garden History and Design, Vol. 1. C. Shoemaker, ed. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, pp. 208-09.

Alanen, Arnold R. 2000. "Midwestern Colonists in the Matanuska Valley : Settling Rural Alaska During the Great Depression." In People, Power, Places: Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture, VIII. S. McMurry and A. Adams, eds. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, pp. 53-80.

Alanen, Arnold R. 2000. "Peets, Elbert." In Pioneers of American Landscape Design. C.A. Birnbaum and R. Karson, eds. New York: McGraw-Hill, 293-96.

Alanen, Arnold R. & Robert Z. Melnick. 2000. "Why Cultural Landscape Preservation?" In Preserving Cultural Landscapes in America . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 1-21.

Alanen, Arnold R. 2000. "Considering the Ordinary: Vernacular Landscapes in Rural and Remote Areas." In Preserving Cultural Landscapes in America . A. R. Alanen and R. Z. Melnick, eds. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 112-42.

Alanen, Arnold R. 2000. "Elbert Peets: History as Precedent in Midwestern Landscape Architecture." In Midwestern Landscape Architecture. William Tishler, ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, pp. 193-214.

Alanen, Arnold R. and Lynn Bjorkman. 1999. "Early Twentieth-Century National Planning in the United States : The Vision of Warren H. Manning." In Proceedings of the 1999 ASLA Annual Meeting. D.L. Scheu, compiler. Washington , D.C. : American Society of Landscape Architects, pp. 44-45.

Alanen, Arnold R. & Holly Smith-Middleton. 1999. "Tlingits, Russians, and Finns in Nineteenth Century Alaska : Documenting and Managing a Cultural Landscape at Sitka National Historical Park." In Shaping the Land: Proceedings of the Permanent European Conference for the Study of the Rural Landscape, Vol. I. Trondheim, Norway: University of Trondheim , pp. 88-103.

Alanen, Arnold R. and Lynn Bjorkman. 1998. " Plats, Parks, Playgrounds, and Plants: Warren H. Manning's Landscape Designs for the Mining Districts of Michigan's Upper Peninsula." IA: Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology 24, No. 1: 41-60.

Alanen, Arnold R. 1998. " A Place on the Ishthmus: The Planning of Madison and Its Capitol Park During the Nineteenth Century." Historic Madison : A Journal of the Four Lakes Region 15: 16-27.

Alanen, Arnold R. 1997. "'Finnish Architecture' and 'Sauna and Lato' in Michigan , Minnesota , and Wisconsin ." In Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World, Vol. 3, Paul Oliver, ed. Cambridge , England: Cambridge University Press, pp. 1859-60.

Alanen, Arnold R. 1997. "Homes on the Range: Settling the Penokee-Gogebic Iron Ore District of Northern Wisconsin and Michigan ." In Wisconsin Land and Life. R. Ostergren and T. Vale, eds. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.

Alanen, Arnold R. and W. H. Tishler. 1996. "Farming the Lake Superior Shore : Agricultural and Horticultural Activities On the Apostle Islands , 1840-1940." Wisconsin Magazine of History 79, Spring 1996: 162-203.

Haswell, Susan O. and Arnold R. Alanen. 1995. "Colonizing the Cutover: Wisconsin 's Progressive-Era Experiments in Rural Planning." Landscape Journal 14, Fall: 171-87.

Alanen, Arnold R. 1995. "Back to the Land: Immigrants and Image Makers in the Lake Superior Region, 1865-1930." In Landscape in America . George F. Thompson, ed. Austin: University of Texas Press, pp. 150-80.

Alanen, Arnold R. 1994. "Gwinn: A Model Town 'Without Equal'." Michigan History 78, November/December: 33-35.

Alanen, Arnold R. 1992. "Kakadu and Uluru: Aboriginal National Parks in Australia 's Northern Territory ." Landscape 31, No. 2: 28-38.

Alanen, Arnold R. 1991. "Companies as Caretakers: Paternalism, Welfare Capitalism, and Immigrants in the Lake Superior Mining Region." In A Century of European Migrations, 1830-1930: Macroperspectives and Microanalyses. R. Vecoli and S. Sinke , eds. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, pp. 364-91.

Alanen, Arnold R. 1991. "From Tower to Soudan: Townsites and Locations on the Vermilion Iron Range." In Immigrants and Entrepreneurs: Life on the Industrial Frontier of Northeastern Minnesota . M. Karni, ed. Chisholm , MN : Iron Range Research Center , pp. 32-39.

Alanen, Arnold R. 1990. " Immigrant Gardens On a Mining Frontier." In The Meaning of Gardens: Idea, Place, and Action. M. Francis and R. T. Hester, Jr, eds. Cambridge , MA: MIT Press, pp. 160-65.

Alanen, Arnold R. 1988. "Architecture and Landscapes in Columbia: The Viability of the Vernacular." Journal of Popular Culture 21, Spring: 99-120; also in Spanish as "La arquitectura y los paisajes de Colombia: La viabilidad de lo vernaculo,” pp. 263-75.

Goto, Junko and Arnold R. Alanen. 1987. "The Conservation of Historic and Cultural Resources in Rural Japan." Landscape Journal 6, Spring: 42-61.

Reports

MacDonald, Eric & Arnold R. Alanen, with Holly Middleton. 2002. Wisconsin's Capitol Park, 1838-2000: A Landscape History. Madison : Department of Administration, State of Wisconsin .

Holmer, Katy, with A.R. Alanen. 2001. Catch of the Day: The Cultural Lanscape Associated with the Hokenson Fishery at Apostle Islands National Lakeshore. Omaha , NE : Midwest Regional Office, National Park Service, 83 pp.

Smith, Holly; Susan Haswell, and Arnold R. Alanen. 2001. Architecture and Science Associated with the Dairy Barn at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Madison: Department of Landscape Architecture and Office of the Provost: University of Wisconsin-Madison.

MacDonald, Eric and Arnold R. Alanen. 2000. Tending a "Comfortable Wilderness": A History of Agricultural Landscapes on North Manitou Island, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Michigan. Omaha , NE: Midwest Field Office, National Park Service, 417 pp.

Smith-Middleton, Holly and Arnold R. Alanen. 1999. Testaments to Space and Time: A Cultural Landscape Report for Sitka National Historical Park. Anchorage , AK: Alaskan Field Area Office, National Park Service, 228 pp.

Smith-Middleton, Holly and Arnold R. Alanen. 1998. Impressions of Indian River: A Landscape History of Sitka National Historical Park: Sitka, Alaska. Anchorage , AK : Alaskan Field Area, National Park Service, 328 pp.

Harrington, John; Susan O. Haswell; Evelyn A. Howell; and Arnold R. Alanen. 1998. Springs of Genius: An Integrated Landscape Management Plan for George Washington Carver National Monument , Diamond, Missouri . Omaha , NE : Midwest Field Office, National Park Service.

Alanen, Arnold R. and Katie Franks, eds. 1997. Remnants of Corporate Paternalism: Company Housing and Landscapes at Calumet , Michigan . Omaha , NE : Midwest Field Area, National Park Service, 78 pp.

Williams, Brenda; Arnold R. Alanen, and William H. Tishler. 1996. Coming Through with Rye : An Historic Agricultural Landscape Study of South Manitou Island at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Michigan . Omaha , NE : Midwest Regional Office, National Park Service, 294 pp.

McEnaney, Marla; William H. Tishler, and Arnold R. Alanen. 1995. Farming at the Water's Edge: An Assessment of Agricultural and Cultural Landscape Resources at Port Oneida --Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Michigan . Omaha , NE : Midwest Regional Office, National Park Service, 417 pp.

Haswell, Susan O. and Arnold R. Alanen. 1994. A Garden Apart: An Agricultural and Settlement History of the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Region, Michigan . Omaha , NE : Midwest Regional Office, National Park Service, 181pp.