John A. Jakle

Jakle was born in 1939 in Terre Haute, Indiana.^[3] He grew up in Michigan and 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 in 1963 and a PhD from Indiana University in 1967.^[6]

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] The "roadside America" books they have written include titles 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]

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]

In 1958, Jakle married Cynthia Powell; they have two daughters.^[1]

• 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]