Subtitle: The City in the Garden
Author: Charles A. Stansfield, Jr.
Subject: Geography/New Jersey
Paperback ISBN 0-8135-2579-9
Pages: 304 pp. 43 b&w illus., 45 tables, 53 maps
Description: A comprehensive examination of important themes in both contemporary and historical geography of New Jersey.

Second Edition

New Jersey is "the city in the garden." It is a bundle of paradoxes - a highly industrialized state famous for its seashore and mountain resorts; a fairly conservative state politically that nonetheless pioneered state land use, zoning, and environmental protection legislation. The only state to be characterized by the U.S. Census as entirely metropolitan, New Jersey has the highest population density in the nation. It is a highly suburbanized state that remains important agriculturally, one in which both very large and very small farms continue to multiply. New Jersey is also a state in which widespread suburbanization of residents, shopping, and jobs has affected the most remote corners but in which old central cities are being revitalized by massive immigration which is demographically and dramatically changing the face of the state. New Jersey should be understood as both a microcosm of the United States and a leading indicator of things to come for the nation.

Charles A. Stansfield, Jr., instructs readers on all aspects of New Jersey geography in this updated edition of his classic text, which features more than 100 maps and illustrations. He provides a detailed analysis of the state's :

physical geography

management of physical environments

human ecology

early European settlement

cultural landscape

population characteristics

race and ethnicity

transportation

agriculture

industrial development

recreation and tourism

regions

Charles A. Stansfield, Jr. is a professor of geography at Rowan University.